Yesterday’s Breakfast?

John 9:25 He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

I had a birthday last week, one that I have dreaded for years. I turned 52, the age that my grandfather died, likely from the stress of owning business similar to the one I am in. My grandmother told me a lot about how the stress worked on him, the worry and anxieties that employees never understand. I find myself on a similar path, stressed to the breaking point, my analytical ability slipping, physical strength failing, and my every shrinking memory fading….father time is taking it’s toll on me. I always struggled with memory, even earlier in life. I could never retain what I read. I can be grabbed and moved by a book, but not recall it when I put it down. I truly have lived in the “present tense” for most of my life, an inner battle only few understand. Only by the grace of God has the last ten or so years found me reading more about God, and remembering it, by his Spirit that lives in me. When my memory fails, my Spirit recalls, right on time, every time.

Jesus was with his disciples who where questioning sin, and the results of it, in a very big way. They came across this blind man from birth, and they asked if he was blind as a result from his parents sin (a big question many people ask themselves). Jesus said no, he was born to draw glory to God. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. (ESV) Everyone knew he had been born blind, so everyone wanted to know how he was healed. Can you imagine what that was like to him, and even those he shared his testimony of Jesus healing him to? The religious of the day brought him and his family to “court” to get them to change his testimony. Likely a great work of God was happening through this man sharing his faith in Jesus, his testimony was threatening the Pharisees rules. This uneducated man preached to the preachers a powerful sermon of his faith in Jesus Christ! 27 He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” 30 The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. 32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

This weekend at the last Trackside Church service, Dale told everyone we will always point them to seek God through prayer and his Word; that is our and any disciples mission, to urge the hearer to seek and find God themselves. You cannot spend time with God today and be the same person you were yesterday. You will be changed from the inside out as you pray and read God’s Word each day. You might even remember the perfect verse, at the perfect time, and have no idea where it came from; especially if you can’t remember breakfast yesterday.