Daryl Williams Trio

Here’s Mud In Your Eye !

Did you ever make mud pies when you were a kid? I would grab my mom's clean pie tins (without permission, of course). I'd run outside and find the dirt behind our old shed and saturate the ground with water from the hose until the mud squished between my toes (that's how I knew it was ready). Then I'd sit right in the middle of the mud and fill those pie tins. I even tasted it once (okay, 3 times). Daryl says it couldn't have been any worse than the pies I make now.... I loved to play in the mud when I was a little girl. I understand why pigs are so attracted to it. But as much as I loved rolling in it, making pies and throwing clumps of it on our neighbor's fence, I was always careful not to get it in my eyes. It felt great under my feet and in my hands but I knew it would irritate my eyes. We have a natural tendancy to protect our eyes from getting a substance like mud in them. The Lord even created eyelids and lashes to help us protect this very sensitive area.... I guess this is why I used to have a hard time understanding the story in John 9. Jesus saw a blind man and obviously had compassion on him because He stopped to help him. Verse 6 is the part that confused me. It says in the KIV (Karen's International Version) that Jesus watered the dirt with his saliva, made some mud and put it on the man's eyes. Now in Matthew 20:32-34 Jesus saw 2 blind men, touched their eyes and they immediately received their sight. Where was the mud in that story? I'm sure this man in John 9 wanted to be healed as much as the other men. Wasn't this like adding insult to injury? His eyes were the source of his problem and now they were saturated with mud. A bad area was made worse. Do you ever feel that way? Can I hear a big, fat AMEN! I am learning that just before the breakthrough, the deliverance, the miracle, the blessing, "the whatever you need from God," ----- that your problem (whether it be physical or spiritual) gets worse just before it gets better. I'm not sure why, but just maybe it's because the miracle itself won't draw you closer to the Lord or develop the character you need but the process of getting there and the obedience that this requires will.

The blind man not only had to stand there, hearing Jesus spit on the ground, wondering what in the world He was doing, but he had to trust, that a man he didn't know, knew what He was doing. Then, if that weren't enough, he had to get to the place the Lord sent him to wash it out ----- still blind and now with mud dripping from his eyes. Do you ever feel like you can't see where you're going but you've just got to get there? Well, he got there, washed the mud out and recieved his sight. Determination got him to the right place but Obedience gave him the miracle. I guess the question is ---- HOW BAD DO YA WANT IT ?

Karen Williams
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