{"id":5868,"date":"2022-05-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2022-04-25T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:50:18","slug":"works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2022\/05\/17\/works\/","title":{"rendered":"WORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Daily Reading: <\/strong>1 Samuel 20:1-21:15 ESV<\/a>, John 9:1-41 ESV<\/a>, Psalm 113:1-114:8 ESV<\/a>, Proverbs 15:15-17 ESV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Verse:<\/strong> \u201cJesus answered, \u201cIt was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works<\/em> of God might be displayed in him.\u201d (John 9:3 ESV<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ERGON (2041): <\/strong>\u201cTo work; toil, as an effort or occupation, by implication an act.\u201d[i]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s action.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus healed a man blind from birth.  His disciples want to know which one of his parent’s sins made him blind.  In their minds, his disability resulted from someone\u2019s sin, the man\u2019s parents the obvious choice.  Human thinking limits options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God, the knower of all things, knew this moment in time would happen.  Thirty-eight years before the disciples strolled by with Jesus, God began setting the scene. Day after day, passers-by watched the poor man suffer, then one miraculous day, they saw him healed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing anyone else did could save this man from his misery.  But some divine spit made a miraculous mud.  The ecstasy the man felt when he washed the dirt from his eyes, cool water dripping down his face, at first, his vision blurred from the water, but as it slid away, he could see for the first time in his life\u2014what a moment he had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Divine mud.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only God would heal someone with mud made from spit.  Jesus didn\u2019t have to do anything but say the word, and the blind man would have sight.  But instead, Jesus bends down and makes some mud.  Watching God work made a more memorable impact.  If Jesus didn\u2019t get His hands dirty, people wouldn\u2019t remember it as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about the best sermon you\u2019ve ever heard.  I bet the pastor used a visual to make his point.  I know; the messages I remember the best had a visual cue.  God knows He must get our attention; Jesus\u2019s not afraid to get His hands dirty to make His point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s work comes in many forms.\u00a0 As employees of the Big Guy, God works through us.\u00a0 Keeping our eyes on our mission: love God, love others help us stay focused and available.\u00a0 We can only fulfill the Great Commandment by staying connected to the source of love, Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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[i]<\/a> Strong, J., & Strong, J. (2010). The New Strong’s expanded exhaustive concordance of the Bible<\/em>. Greek Dictionary of the New Testament<\/em> (p. 102) Thomas Nelson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 minute read. Daily Reading: 1 Samuel 20:1-21:15 ESV, John 9:1-41 ESV, Psalm 113:1-114:8 ESV, Proverbs 15:15-17 ESV Daily Verse: \u201cJesus answered, \u201cIt was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.\u201d (John 9:3 ESV) ERGON (2041): \u201cTo work; toil, as an effort or occupation, by… Continue reading WORKS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}