The Blind Man

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The Blind Man
The Blind Man

In Vitro Fertilization is not something either of us wanted to do. Spending thousands of dollars, being injected with hormones and the possibility of quadruplets was daunting to say the least. But we felt God leading us to it and it gave us hope for a future. You may have asked yourself (because I’ve asked the same question), “Why would God have you do IVF when he can easily create a miracle baby without it?” My answer came to me one morning while I was getting ready for the day, dwelling and praying over this very question, when a bible story popped into my head. The story of Jesus healing a blind man by spitting on the dirt and making mud, rubbing that mud in his eyes and then telling him to wash his eyes in the water. I remember hearing once that sometimes God requires an act of faith and that’s why this blind man had to wash his eyes. So I decided to look up the verse and read it for myself and what I found were 6 different accounts in the bible of Jesus healing blind men, using 4 different methods. They were healed by touch, by voice command, by rubbing spit into a man’s eyes and by having the blind man rinse in a pool. What I think is essential to having 6 different stories of Jesus healing the blind told in the Bible, is Jesus performed miracles in different ways for different people and it is the same in today’s world. John 9:1-12 is the last and longest account of Jesus healing a blind man and he choose to give more details on this man who didn’t get healed by voice command or even by touch. He was still healed by Jesus, but through his act of faith of rinsing the mud off his eyes.

What is even more beautiful to me is the highlighted passage I discovered while looking up this blind man’s story. At the beginning of our infertility struggle I was really focused on what I may have done to deserve infertility and I found John 9:3. At the time I found it, I highlighted it because it made me realize it wasn’t about me or what I had done but about what God will do. “But this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.” Not everyone’s story will be the same, we all have different details, but through every story God can be praised! After two failed rounds of IVF we are no closer to our hope of having a baby, but we are closer to God, each other and our community. God didn’t choose for our IVF cycle’s to be fruitful in the way we desired but he made them fruitful in other ways, some ways that we still don’t know or understand.

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Taken on: January 22, 2019
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