IT'S JUST NOT ABOUT THAT!!!!!

(John 9) Reading about Jesus’ healing the blind man by putting muddy spit on his eyes and telling him to go wash in a particular pool, and especially doing it on the Sabbath day, shocked the people then, and still causes people to wonder why He did that.  I believe Jesus was using every means available to show the people He was God and the needs of their lives were not to be met by outward religious political correctness, but by looking to Him alone in simplicity and sincerity.

Our personal and corporate challenge today is still to avoid religiosity with its empty pride, judgmentalism, guilt and hypocrisy, and instead look to Jesus as our teacher, helper and Lord.  He got plain and simple when He called Himself the bread of life and the living water that satisfies all thirst.  To put it in our modern context we might say, “Away with junk food, artificial ingredients, preservatives, and costly nutritional supplements!  Let’s just eat the living bread and drink the water of life!”

What did you eat today?

The prophet Isaiah (55:1-3) forecast it well when he wrote:

Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without cost.
“Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And delight yourself in abundance.
“Incline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, that you may live;