I Was Blind But Now I See : A New Insight To An Old Verse

I Was Blind, But Now I See

A New Insight To An Old Verse

( Scriptures Taken From The ONLY True Bible... The King James Version )

During Jesus' time on Earth, He performed many miracles. These miracles range from healing the sick to raising the dead. Occasionally, He would perform these miracles with the use of things in His presence. One of the things He used, in one instance, was clay.

Some people assume that He used clay because it was presumed, during that time, that clay had some medicinal healing properties. Others have derived many other reasons why they believe He used clay. But does anyone know for sure why he chose to use it? Below is the scripture record showing a time when He healed a blind man using clay:

John 9:6-7

When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

The main message which has been preached for years about the above scriptures is the obedience the blind man exhibited to Jesus' command to go wash in the pool. Had the man not obeyed this command, in faith that his sight would be restored, it is possible that his sight would not have returned. But a much deeper message can be found in Jesus' use of clay to perform this particular healing. The message comes directly from the word clay and what it represented, and an understanding of what Jesus was actually revealing through His use of it. Keep the following scriptures in mind:

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

and...

Jeremiah 18:6

O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

First of all, Jesus, because of who He is, did not need to use anything to heal the blind man. He could have simply willed the man healed, tapped him on the head, snapped his fingers, or said "Be ye healed.", and the man would have instantly been healed. In other accounts, Jesus did perform healings without touching the person. One of these times is seen in the scriptures below:

Matthew 9:6-7

But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith He to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. And he arose, and departed to his house.

In the account above, Jesus made no contact with the man to heal him. He simply spoke to the man, and the man was healed. So this proves that physical contact was not a necessary part of Jesus' miracles. And if we assume that Jesus used the clay for it's supposed medicinal healing properties, this could, in the eyes of those who do not believe in Him, diminish from his true power and status as the true Son of God, and reduce him to nothing more than a medicine man. But by using the clay while healing the man, Jesus was actually making a statement about His true identity. When Jesus took up the clay in his hand, and applied it to the eyes of the blind man, He was symbolically molding the eyes of the blind man so that he might see again, just as a potter molds clay into a refined shape. Jesus took the clay in His hands and applied it to the blind man's eyes to show that the man was clay in His hands, and He is the potter which was molding him, just as is said of God's ability in Isaiah 64:8 above. A favorite hymn displays this same message... some of the words to the hymn are :

Have thine own way Lord, have thine own way,

Thou are the potter, I am the clay,

Mold me and make me after thy will,

While I am waiting, yielded and still.

So we see now that the message given in John 9:6-7, which is commonly thought to be nothing more than a record of one of Jesus' miraculous healing, is in fact much more! It is a declaration of His true identity... that He is the God of the Old Testament books of Isaiah and Jeremiah... that he is our maker... our potter. This backs up Christianity's belief in the Holy Trinity... that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are all one being.

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