Before and After I

‘He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see’ John 9:25

You also have a story and a powerful story for that matter. Your job is to learn how to tell your story. Please read John 9. There was a man that was born blind and Jesus healed him. The response of the religious leaders to the man’s healing was ‘this is a Sabbath day you cannot be healed on a Sabbath day’. Can you imagine that? Think about it, those religious leaders were just insensitive. Who heals, is it not God? If God chooses to heal on the Sabbath day, can anyone hold God to the law? So they asked who healed him and he said Jesus. And the man began to rave about Jesus [these are my words] – Jesus is so cool and so powerful. You people need to be around him. In fact, just stay beside him and you will feel the anointing. Of course, this upset the religious leaders, so they tried to shut him up, ‘He is just an ordinary man and a sinner, give glory to God’. The man said, ‘whether he is a sinner or not isn’t actually my business. My business in all this is, whereas I was blind but now I can see’.

People out there try to confuse others with all sorts of theological debates. My advice is, don’t get confused because they are confused. You don’t need to know all those things to be saved. The man said, ‘I don’t know whether it is right or wrong. I don’t know if he is a sinner or a saint but one thing I know…’ In other words, this is my story, I was blind but now I can see. I have friends that are animists, some are atheists; one said recently that he is a humanist and doesn’t believe in God. He was concerned about my passion for religion. And I said mine is not religion, whereas I was blind but now I can see. I see what Jesus has done in my life, how can anyone convince me that there is no God? The Bible says, ‘taste and see that the Lord is good’. I have an orange, I am eating the orange, I say it is sweet. You don’t have the orange, you haven’t tasted the orange, yet you are telling me the orange doesn’t exist and it’s not sweet. The only way to settle this is to taste the orange! But if you refuse to taste the orange then you can’t know. If you taste and it is not sweet then you can write all the blogs you like. But they are afraid because it might actually be sweet.

Thought: Take time out to articulate your story, write it down in your journal.

Prayer: Father, help me discern correctly who to share my story with, in Jesus Name.