Today I want to share from Joseph Prince's "Grace Inspirations" devotional found on his website.
CREATION CAN’T BUT REDEMPTION CAN!
John 9:7 And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of
Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back
seeing.
When Adam sinned and fell, everything about creation fell.
Yet, people today are still putting their trust in creation. For example, they
try to become healthy by eating what is called the “Eden diet”—vegetables and
no meat. They are acting as if creation did not fall. They also forget that
there are people who eat well and exercise regularly, and still drop dead in
the prime of their lives!
Thank God that what creation cannot do, redemption can
and did. Jesus demonstrated this when He spat on the ground, made clay with the
saliva and put it on a blind man’s eyes (see John 9:6–7). Now, it is certainly
unusual to put clay on a blind man’s eyes because he would become doubly blind!
So why did Jesus do that?
He was demonstrating to us that all our body parts come from
the ground and that because creation is fallen, the work of creation cannot
open a blind man’s eyes. But the work of redemption can! That is why He sent
the blind man to the pool of Siloam. The word “Siloam” means “Sent,” referring
to the sent one, Jesus. When the blind man washed his eyes in the pool of the
sent one, he received supernatural healing for his eyes.
Beloved, when we go to Jesus, the sent one who came to
redeem us with the price of His blood, and we rest in His finished work, we
will receive the miracle we need. If we believe that by His stripes we are
healed (see Isaiah 53:5), we will have greater health than those who trust in
creation.
Jesus was sent to redeem us from every curse that came upon
creation with the fall of Adam (see Galatians 3:13). He has redeemed us from
sickness, pain, sorrow, depression, poverty and even death. The world may know
Him as the Creator. But today, we know Him as our Redeemer. Where the work of
creation cannot save us, His work of redemption can and has!
AMEN! he IS Jehovah Rappha to us! The LORD Who HEALS us! HALLELUJAH! And the LORD Who has already provided for anything and everything that we will ever need! Let's run into His presence and receive His wonderful help in every time of need! He DELIGHTS in giving us the VICTORY! In HIS own way! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "What A Beautiful Name":
Shalom in Him!
