He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it in my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and then I could see.” (John 9:11, NIV)
What’s your story?
Golfers are good at telling stories. Ben Curtis now has a beautiful story to tell about how six lean years does not make one’s future. Ai Miyazato may soon be talking about how 2012 was the year she chased No. 1. Matt Every may be forlornly talking with his closest friends about the one that got away. And while those are tales from the tour, we might say, each of us too can open the book of our own best and worst golfing days and start narrating.
Honestly, I’m a little wearied by the use of “story” as people talk about their lives these days—especially when “my story” becomes synonymous with “my excuse” or “my explanation.” But it is still a great word when what it means is this: offering the account of what really happened to me.
In John 9, we find a man with a story to tell, and not any ordinary story. He was an eyewitness to the miracle of which he was also the beneficiary. Jesus had healed this man of blindness.
Word got out. An explanation was demanded.
Sensing an interrogation rather than an honest inquiry, the man kept it simple: “Jesus did it. He touched me, and I’ll never be the same. I can see!”
When Jesus does a work in our lives, it should be quite natural for us to become storytellers, to “talk it up.” When we use that expression, we can mean that we should talk something up beyond a place it deserves. We can oversell and overpromise. That’s just not possible with Jesus. When he really has our heart, he has all of us, even our tongues. And since he is the True High King, what our tongues are really doing is catching up to his majesty. We’re speaking highly of the one who is highest.
So here’s a meditation for you—ask yourself: What wonders has God worked in my life? Think on that thoroughly. And then when you’re done, maybe even writing out a list of prompts, think about how you can tell others what it means to be captured by the Savior.
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Jeff Hopper
April 24, 2012
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