Pastor Jonathan Miller's Blog

Irritating Your Infirmity

In John 9:6, we read of a blind man who went to Jesus for healing. Jesus responded by spitting on the sand, making a paste out of it, and then applying it to this man's eyes. Besides this method sounding unpractical, it can be assumed that this method must have been painful. Having sand in your eyes could not be a comfortable or pleasant experience. Why would Jesus do this? What possible reason would He have had to irritate this man's infirmity?

I believe that He did this to show us a powerful truth and revelation. Sometimes the things in life that hurt us the most, are the very things that lead us to our healing and deliverance. The irritation of impossible circumstance, can be the motivation for true and divine freedom. Fiery trials are not comfortable, however, they have a way of bringing stuff to the surface that we may not even know is in us. It is not in the midst of comfort that God begins to heal and deliver, it is in moments of pain and great irritation. It is in the fire of affliction.

As we look at Dan. 3, we see the story of three Hebrew men who would not obey the king's order to worship the golden image. They would only worship the true and only God. The king, in his anger, ordered them to be bound hand and foot, and then tossed into a fiery furnace. After they were thrown in, the king looked down to observe them. Much to his surprise, he saw 4 men walking around in the midst of the fire. We know through the scripture, that the 4th man was the Son of God! But what I find interesting, is the state that Nebuchadnezzar found them in while they were in the fire. He saw them walking loosed! They were thrown in bound, but got free in the fire. I believe that if we can get free IN the fire, that God will set us free FROM the fire. This freedom only comes through a revelation of Christ.