Are You Too Afraid to be a Parent?
This morning I started to read the story in John 9 about a blind man who Jesus had healed. It an awesome miracle story, and is the one about Jesus spitting in the mud. (I always thought Jesus healing with his spit was odd. As a side note to this I learned by going to The Holy Land in Orlando that the reason Jesus spit in the ground was because the Jews of the day were going around saying that when the Messiah came he’d be so anointed even his ‘spit’ would have healing. Jesus was fulfilling their own words when he did this. I have always found that a cool bit of history) What jumped out at me about this story is what came later. The high priests of the day were all up in arms because this man was healed on the Sabbath, so they called the parents in to testify that their son had been blind since birth. Their reaction can be found in verse 20-22 20 His parents answered, “We k...