Yesterday, I talked about the blind man and Lazarus being put on the hit list because of their deliverance testimonies. The former blind man gained his sight. What blessed my heart today is the fact he gained insight about Jesus. It came through being targeted.
It was known among the Jews that if anyone said that Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue. When asked about their son and who healed him, the blind man’s parents answered two of the three questions. Yes, the sighed man before them was their son, and he’d been born blind. However, they diverted the third question to their son as the idea of being put out of the synagogue was in the foreground.
The man, engulfed in the vibrancy of seeing, readily explained how and who healed him. The religious leaders refused to accept his answer – yet continued with the same questions, hoping to receive a different response. The man, now agitated by their refusal to accept his responses, asked them why it mattered that they didn’t know where He was from nor would acknowledge the miracle He’d performed. The blind man was ridiculed for countering their position and was thrown out of the synagogue.
The rejection didn’t bother the man because his deliverance was so much greater than being in “right standing” with people who couldn’t deliver him, wouldn’t accept his deliverance, and would choose to punish him for telling them truth! They didn’t want to hear it, so they did what they could – kicked him out.
But I love how Jesus found him when he heard what happened to him. Jesus asked the man did he believe on the Son of God? The man replied, who is he that I might believe on him? Jesus’ answer opened the man’s spiritual eyes. He said, “Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.” He said, “I believe” and went into worship mode! Talk about eye-opening!
So whatever, or whoever is bent on berating you for walking in your deliverance can only take what’s in their power to take — if they want to demote you from x, y, or z, that’s okay because you were elevated when Jesus healed you – delivered you – and you are now positioned for Him to reveal Himself to you on another level.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. John 9:35-38 (KJV)
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, Ephesians 1:17-18 (KJV)
In the Master’s Service,
Pastor/Author Michele D Robertson
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew 11:28-29 (KJV)