April 17 – An Amazing Thing

"We (the Pharisees) know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where He is from." The man (the one Jesus had healed from blindness) answered and said to them, "Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes. We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him. Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. If this man were not from God, He could do nothing." John 9:29-33

I once was blind but now I see. Amazing Grace. The song says it so well. 

  Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wrench like me

  I once was lost, but now am found

  Was blind but now I see.

This song was comforting on this very evening to my husband Jerry as he was transported with a broken hip to the Hospital Beatriz Angelo in Lisbon, Portugal. He fell down just the last three steps of a flight of narrow marble steps going to the basement dormitory where we were staying during a Work & Witness project to remodel a Nazarene church here into a coffeehouse. We're not much help on the project now...but we're trusting that God has a plan. The Portugese people are wonderful people--so kind. The area here around Lisbon is beautiful--so green with such an enormous variety of plants--from cactus to palm trees right in the same yard! It is amazing that God has created such variety--and given us eyes to see it--to see His grace in our lives. 

RSVP: Can you see God's grace in your life? What will you do with it?

Prayer~ An Amazing Thing…Lord, when You touch people’s lives, it is an amazing thing. Just as You sent an angel of the Lord for Samson’s parents to see as they offered a sacrifice and they were amazed, we are amazed when You give us a healing touch, a word spoken to encourage someone. 

Thank you Jesus for the care that you are providing for Jerry--for showing us your grace in our lives. We're trusting you.

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All scripture quoted from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) unless otherwise noted.