Tell Your Story


Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshiped Him. John 9:38

This worshipper of Jesus had quite a story to tell even before he had ever seen Jesus. Oh, he had heard His voice and had talked with Him and had been touched by the Master’s hand, but he had not yet seen Jesus when he began to tell his story.

This man’s story began, as stories do, at the beginning — he was born blind. The disciples thought it must have been some kind of a punishment that caused him to be born blind; either he had sinned or his parents (although it would be impossible to pin his affliction on his own sin since he was born blind and would not have had a chance to sin before he was even born!). At any rate, you see with this example how easily we can reduce the story of one’s life down to their life alone, not considering that we have all been created by God for a purpose.

Jesus clears up this misconception and declares that this man’s affliction is going to reveal the works of God in his life. So, if you are going to tell his story, even from the beginning, you must include God’s plan and purpose for his life. If you leave God out of it, you will end up, like the disciples, focusing on him and his parents and other factors in his life and his childhood. With that approach, there will be no glory for God. You may feel sorry for the man because of all his troubles but that’s about all his story would accomplish.

Now we come to the works of God in his life. Significantly, Jesus chose to heal this man’s blindness in a singular way, He spat on the ground and made some mud and anointed his eyes with mud! Then, he sent him away to wash the mud from his eyes and he received his sight. So, even though Jesus healed his blindness, he had never seen Jesus up to this point. Thus far, his story only includes what Jesus has done for him, not who Jesus is. Still, he has a story to tell, although it is not going to be welcomed by the religious leaders. They asked him about Jesus’ whereabouts and he says he doesn’t know. They ask him what kind of a man Jesus is and he says he doesn’t know. Finally, in verse twenty-five we come to the only thing he knows at this point, “One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

Finally, after he has shared his story, we come to our verse where he meets Jesus and comes to know Him as Savior and Lord, declaring his faith in Jesus and worshipping Him. Now he has another chapter in his story to tell. His story is not about all that he went through and why this or that happened to him, his story is about being touched by the Lord and then meeting Him and becoming His follower.

You have a story to tell, not of why you were born the way you were or why you grew up the way you did or what you or your parents did wrong. Your story is not about how bad things were and why they were the way they were. God has a specific purpose for your life and, if you are willing, will bring it to pass, not because of what you have suffered, but in spite of the evil that has touched your life. Tell the story of how Jesus touched you and how He opened your eyes to see even before you had ever seen Him. How He made Himself known to you even when you did not know Him. How He saved you. Tell your story!

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