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Through the Bible - Genesis 29-30, Romans 10

 

Good morning,

Yesterday we considered that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

 

In John chapter 9 Jesus heals a blind man.  Try to picture what it must have been like to be blind and suddenly be able to see.  The blind man in the story had to feel gratitude as happiness doubled by wonder as described yesterday by Chesterton.  What was the response of the man?  He worshipped.

 

John 9:35  Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, "Do you believe in  the Son of Man?"  36 He answered,  "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?" 37 Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and  it is he who is speaking to you."  38 He said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.  ESV

The Pharisees were incensed by the fact that the man had been healed on the Sabbath and the "cast him out".  Jesus took Him in.  The result of all of this was that the man worshipped Him, worshipped God.

Charles Spurgeon writes, "this proves how his faith had grown.  I should ask you who are the people of God when you are happiest ..... my happiest moments are when I am worshipping God, really adoring the Lord Jesus Christ.

What a memorable moment it was when this man worshipped God."

 

We often think of worship of something we do on Sunday.  But true worship is something that should be done any time we are truly happy in Christ, when we are grateful, when we step back in wonder of what a great God it is that we serve and so loves us.  Bringing hope out of despair.

 

O how He loves you and me
O how He loves you and me
He gave His life, what more could He give?

O how He loves you
O how He loves me
O how He loves you and me

Jesus to Calvary did go
His love for mankind to show
What He did there brought hope from despair

 

Oh how He loves you and me.  May we worship Him for it.

n Christ,
Mike
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http://mikesvotd.blogspot.com
Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace  NIV
John 9:24-41

 

24 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him,  "Give glory to God. We know that  this man is a sinner." 25 He answered, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I  was blind, now I see." 26 They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" 27 He answered them,  "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?" 28 And they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but  we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man,  we do not know where he comes from." 30 The man answered, "Why, this is  an amazing thing!  You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that  God does not listen to sinners, but  if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. 32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33  If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." 34 They answered him,  "You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?" And they  cast him out.

 

35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, "Do you believe in  the Son of Man?"  36 He answered,  "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?" 37 Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and  it is he who is speaking to you."  38 He said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him. 39 Jesus said,  "For judgment I came into this world,  that those who do not see may see, and  those who see may become blind."  40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him,  "Are we also blind?" 41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind,  you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains.
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