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Chapter 14 |
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The blind man obeyed promptly and eagerly. It was not easy for him to take this long walk through the town. On his eyes were the unsightly patches of clay, and people would laugh at him as they saw him groping along the street. But he did not mind this — he would not be laughed out of the cure which was now so near at hand. Perhaps his friends told him it was all foolishness — that mud never yet had been known to cure anyone’s blindness, and that Siloam water had no power to open sightless eyes. Still the man pressed on, amid the laughing people, until he came to the pool. There he washed, and lo — to his eyes, which never had seen before, were instantly opened.
When the man’s old neighbours saw him going about with his eyes opened, they asked him how the wonderful transformation had come to him. They could scarcely believe that it was the same man they used to know. When a man’s life is changed from evil ways to good, people are amazed. In every life conversion works a change. If a man is not in some way better, sweeter in spirit, kindlier, truer, with a more radiant face, and new light in his eyes, his conversion has not made much impression.
The man’s prompt and simple confession of Christ as his Healer shows his sincerity and earnestness. When the people asked the man how his eyes were opened, he answered, “A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes.” He was not afraid to tell how he had been cured. When Jesus has saved us we should never hesitate to confess Him before the world.
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