Wed.’s Devo - Believing is Seeing

Read: 1 Samuel 20:1-21:15; John 9:1-41; Psalms 113:1-114:8; Proverbs 15:15-17
Jonathan is my hero. His name means “God is giver” and he was the perfect picture of a giver. He was next in line for the kingdom and yet he saw the gift that God had given David and the anointing that David carried and Jonathan honored the gift and feared God above his father. Saul was bent on using his carnal strength to make sure Jonathan became the next king. Jonathan relied on God and his will. He made sure that David’s life was spared and that justice was given him. Jonathan saved David’s life from his own father.
David fled Saul and went to Nob which means “fruit or empty” which sound like an oxymoron. David came their empty and received sustenance - fruit. He actually ate the holy bread that only the priests were allowed to eat. It was last week’s bread, but it sustained them and they were not struck down by God for eating holy bread. David, like Jesus, was both a priest and a king before God. The priest gave him what was left over which was 5 loaves - the number of grace.
David lied to the priest and told him he was on a secret mission for the king instead of the fact that he was running from the king. It cost the priest his life fulfilling Samuel’s prophecy that all of Eli’s offspring would die in the prime of their lives.
When you are in survival mode you do crazy things to survive like lying to a priest and acting like you are insane. Both of them worked and helped David to live another day.
In John, Jesus came upon a man that had been blind from birth. The Jews believed that if you had a child born with a defect it was because of your sin, so that is why the disciples asked Jesus if this man had sinned or his parents. Healing a man born blind was one of the three miracles that the leaders of the law had decided would be something only the Messiah would be able to heal when he came. Jesus told the disciples that this man’s condition was not because of anyone’s sins but because God wanted to say something. He wanted to show them that his son was the Messiah, so Jesus healed the man. He created eyes from the dust since the man had never had ones that worked and he told him to rinse the mud off in the Pool of Siloam and he would be able to see. It happened just as Jesus said it would and the man could see. The Pharisees did not know what to do with this miracle since it cornered them into making a statement about who Jesus was. The blind man found Jesus and salvation. The Pharisees questioned Jesus and the miracle and became more blind.
Lord, help us to see clearly and believe the impossible is possible with you.