Words are Strong but Our Story Can Be Even Stronger

I remember walking to morning classes in college and I walked up to a crowd of people standing around a man who was pacing with a speaker yelling to the crowd, "you will all go to Hell if you don't repent right now". I stood . . . how is this bringing people to Christ?

What if instead, he yelled . . .

"I was healed and I promise you He can heal you too!"

Words are strong, but our stories can be even stronger.

I love the story about Jesus healing a blind man. He was blind from birth and Jesus ran into him. Jesus bent down to the ground, made mud with his saliva, and rubbed it on the man's eyes. The man went and washed his eyes and came back SEEING!

Word spread among the people and they couldn't understand how this man was blind and now could see. The news spread so much it brought attention to the Pharisees (who were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus). The Pharisees brought the blind man that now can see in for questioning.

The man told him the entire story "He rubbed mud and saliva together and touched my eyes and now I can see".

The Pharisees were troubled by this story. . . they started questioning the man even more by saying, "so who does this man say he is?"

Even the parents were called in for questioning. . . they asked "so was your son really born blind? How can he now see?"

His parents replied "I don't know. He's a grown man, why don't you ask him?"

So the Pharisees brought the blind man back in again for more questioning, "sooo. . . . what did he do? How did he heal you?

The man gets annoyed at this point

"I told you once. Did you not listen to my story? Why do you want to hear it again? What I know is I was blind and now I see!" (John 9:27)

I love this because all he did was tell his story. Yet the story was all it took. Everyone was talking. . the story got the neighbors talking, Pharisees, and even the man himself wanted to know more about Jesus!

Your story will change lives.

Just. . . share it!