John 9:7
7 And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
When
Adam sinned and fell, everything about creation fell. Yet, people today
are still putting their trust in creation. For example, they try to
become healthy by eating what is called the “Eden diet” — vegetables and
no meat. They are acting as if creation did not fall. They also forget
that there are people who eat well and exercise regularly, and still
drop dead in the prime of their lives!
Thank God that what creation cannot do, redemption can
and did. Jesus demonstrated this when He spat on the ground, made clay
with the saliva and put it on a blind man’s eyes. (John 9:6–7) Now, it
is certainly unusual to put clay on a blind man’s eyes because he would
become doubly blind!
So why did Jesus do that?
He was demonstrating to us that all
our body parts come from the ground and that because creation is fallen,
the work of creation cannot open a blind man’s eyes. But the work of
redemption can! That is why He sent the blind man to the pool of Siloam.
The word “Siloam” means “Sent”, referring to the sent one, Jesus. When
the blind man washed his eyes in the pool of the sent one, he received
supernatural healing for his eyes.
Beloved, when we go to Jesus, the
sent one who came to redeem us with the price of His blood, and we rest
in His finished work, we will receive the miracle we need. If we believe
that by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5), we will have greater
health than those who trust in creation.
Jesus was sent to redeem us from
every curse that came upon creation with the fall of Adam. (Galatians
3:13) He has redeemed us from sickness, pain, sorrow, depression,
poverty and even death. The world may know Him as the Creator. But
today, we know Him as our Redeemer. Where the work of creation cannot
save us, His work of redemption can and has!
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