All of our experiences in life lead to something, we are all on a journey, and God allows and arranges the chapters and pages of our life to be filled with adventures that will cause us to get our of our comfort zone and press into him along the Journey. God is more concerned with you character than he is with your comfort. And in order for us to take the faith steps in our journeys we first need to trust God with our own lives.
So often as a youth pastor I hear from young people that they do not trust in God because God does not appear to be an active contributor to their lives. God seems passive or disengaged or forgetful of their prayers. I want us all to be encouraged to go out…but first we all need to come to grips with the realities of how we actually feel about God. Can I really trust God with my life?
There may be some areas where your trust in God is shaken. There may be some obstacles in your life that are holding you back from walking into the destiny God has for you. Now is a great time to get up. Go. And Rise.
I am reminded of a man who, for no fault of his own was in a situation like this. He was stuck. In fact, for his entire life he was stuck being told that either his bad choices or his parents led to his handicap. Have you ever felt you were judged before a person even knew you? And so instead of walking in destiny he sat in judgment, day after day.
John 9:1-7 Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked, “Rabbi, who sinned: this man or his parents, causing him to be born blind?” 3 Jesus said, “You’re asking the wrong question. You’re looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here. Look instead for what God can do. 4 We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while the sun shines. When night falls, the workday is over. 5 For as long as I am in the world, there is plenty of light. I am the world’s Light.” 6 He said this and then spit in the dust, made a clay paste with the saliva, rubbed the paste on the blind man’s eyes, 7 and said, “Go, wash at the Pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “Sent”). The man went and washed—and saw.
As the event unfolds he goes to the pool and he actually gets healed. Now, I’m trying to imagine a blind man walking half a mile down a series of roads to a pool. Seems a bit tough to me. But what I take from that is that the healing from Jesus took place in an instant, the transformation took place along his journey of faith.
On the journey he learned how to trust in God, how to step out in faith even when it seemed crazy. Jesus was more concerned with the man seeing salvation, than with the man simply seeing. However, Jesus didn’t just come for the salvation of your souls tomorrow, he came to give you a better life today.
So often we are crippled by the obstacles in front of us that we never take the journey that will give us an experience that makes God real in our lives. As a result, we never get to the place of “helping others” because we can’t see past our blindness.
Perhaps this week it’s time for you to get up and go. To pray and seek God for the healing that will empower you to bring hope to others. It’s not that you need to have an amazing talent you can showcase. This guy had one simple statement he said that would end up changing those around him:
Jon 9:25b “One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
May your heart have the courage to go before God and seek his direction for your life both today and in the days to come.
