Appreciate The Sovereign Light

But what we could learn here is that God could use or employ even ordinary means to bless us. He could use human ways to accomplish His purpose.

Just remember how God saved the family of Noah from the earth-wide-flood. He didn’t provide a supernatural bubble to keep them safe. He instructed Noah to build an ark. And no where in the Bible we read that God employed a single angel to help.

When Jesus was still a baby and Herod intended to kill Him, God did not blind the soldiers who were looking for Him. God instructed His parents to flee in Egypt to avoid the evil plan against Him.

In our time, if someone would pray for something to eat, God could rain the food from heaven. Or, He could move the heart of another person to give the food, or give an amount to buy for it.

God could also heal us miraculously. Or He could bless us with healing through a doctor as we follow his instruction.

As we could not limit God what kind of His Work or blessing He would display in our life, we could not also limit how He would extend His favor to us. He could do it directly from His Hands through a miracle. Or, He could employ ordinary ways, using human means.

Believers or lovers of Christ, realize that it was God who gave the blind man his sight. When he obeyed to go and wash, he honored the One who instructed him. And the One he had honored also honored him by blessing him with eyesight.

Remember he didn’t ask to receive his eyesight. He obeyed not to receive the blessing of seeing. He obeyed because He honored the One who instructed him. And because of honoring Christ, the man was honored by Christ. He blessed him.

In Ephesians 6, Paul instructed the children to obey their parents, not directly to be blessed. Obedience is instructed to them to honor their parents. And when they honor their parents, they will be blessed. They will live long and their life would be well.

The blessing that the blind man received was not only physical seeing. Later in the verses ahead, he received greater blessing. He received spiritual eyes to see and know Christ. He was given the gift of saving faith.

We could expect more blessings, more displays of God’s works in our life not always in the ways that are miraculous. He could do it by using ordinary means. He could bless us by giving us opportunities to honor Him.

And one way to honor Him is how? By our obedience. Accomplishing the work that He given us to do.

As Jesus prayed to His Father, “I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do” (John 17:4).

CONCLUSION:

It was raining really hard. Many persons were on the side of a certain building. They could not proceed to the street because of the heavy rain. Then someone went out from the door of the building, which was a hospital. The man shouted with glee, “Wow! What a wonderful day!” Every person who heard him was offended by what he said. Others could not withhold their tongue and said, “Couldn’t you see? The rain was so hard and we could not even inch out to the street!”