Clear as mud you say? Why yes! That's it exactly! … Okay…I’ve only confused you further…let’s rewind a bit.
So Eric, my fellow blogger, and I were up late one night watching an archived Jerry Gillis sermon (JG being my local pastor) via The Chapel at Crosspoint website. He was speaking on John 9…and it included the story of a blind man who was healed by Jesus. You’re probably thinking…*shocking* Jesus healed someone? Yeah I know. I’m full of all sorts of revelations today… but this story is a little unique. This man had been blind his whole life and when he came across Jesus…he, like anyone who had heard of Jesus during this time, probably imagined a few words to be spoken and voila! “I CAN SEE!” But no siree…Jesus took a different approach. He spat on the ground beneath his feet, made a mixture of mud with his hands, and wiped the mucky substance over the man’s eyes. The man, in his blindness and covered in mud, was then told by Jesus to seek out water and wash his face on his own. He did. And of course…his eyes opened and he was healed. A man who had been blind his entire life was suddenly gifted with sight with only a bit of dirt, some holy spit (yep…this is where the holy spit comes from), and the touch of Christ.
The story stayed with us, along with other scripture and thoughts Pastor Jerry shared in his sermon. The idea that we may have to suffer trials and be covered with mud before our eyes are opened to the glory of His blessings really resounded deeply within us… or within me at least. It only takes a bit of holy spit and dirt from Him to make our lives and our purpose clear, and a little bit of faith and obedience on our part too. If the man hadn’t followed Christ’s directions, he may never have experienced the miracle he did. And while we can hardly expect a miracle to drop out of the sky anvil-style, we can appreciate the message that leaves us. Follow Him…and we will be blessed.
And this place, this blog, is where Eric and I would like to continue to share that message. With silly humor…with randomness…with comments on pop culture, the state of our world…with deep intellectual musings on Jerry’s sermons or other scriptures we happen to fall upon…and simply with our goofy personalities.
The directions and paths we take on this blog are completely in His hands. Because we seriously have no clue as to how or when we will be inspired to post. Simply that we intend for Him to lead us. And hopefully amuse you with our silly selves along the way. Feel free to comment and question and give us affection. Being writers, we long and love feedback. And to the left of our postings always feel free to click on any scriptures, links to Jerry’s sermons, and other such things we put up there. I’m sure they will be chock full of interesting things to see and will often relate to our musings.
So yes…our Holy Spit blog is a strange and wonderful place… with much randomness laced with deep Christian influences and musings. The ‘strange’ part of the site is purely in reference to the OTHER blogger on this site. It has absolutely nothing to do with me. I exemplify the wonderfulness, as you will soon see as I continue to post ;)
And with that promise I leave you with this lovely…
Courtesy of LOLcats
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