Father, thank You for the strength to mow the church lot and other physical things today. Thank You that I could see where I was going and hear that the mower was running. My senses and abilities are all gifts from You. Praise to You my Creator God!

John 9:6-7 (<<click here to read the passage)

I occasionally will flip through videos on Facebook. Now I have to be careful because there’s a lot of junk out there, but one genre I enjoy watching is people who know what they are doing restoring vintage toys, and old tools and machines. (At the end of this post is a video of a 1980 Mighty Tonka Dump Truck Restoration if you’d like to watch it.)

What actually brought this to mind were the notes from my Life Application Study Bible New Living Translation. First, here’s today’s passage.

Then he [Jesus] spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes. He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!

Now here is the note regarding verse 6,

When Jesus spit on the ground and made mud in order to repair the man’s eyes, he was working with original materials. Genesis 2:7 states that God formed Adam’s body from the dust of the ground. Jesus was demonstrating a creator’s awareness of the materials he first used to shape the human body.

Looking back at my opening prayer, it’s another one of those “not-a-coincidence” kind of things that God loves pulling together!

So many times in life we think we are “all that”. Physical abilities, financial security, solid relationships, and many other things, we just take credit for. Or we don’t even think of giving credit at all.

We are all blessed beyond measure! And we take things for granted every…single…day!

Take a moment right now and list off things for which you are grateful. Yes, we work for much of what we have but if we trace it back to the source, we must acknowledge that those abilities, those talents, those physical attributes – all of those original materials with which we were endowed – all of came from the generous hand of our Creator! And boy does He know how to restore us, rebirthing us into the creation He intended us to be no matter how far gone we might think we are. All praise goes to You, our Creator God!

July 15th, 2021, Thurs, 8:30 pm