I am excited to share that I am a contributing author on the ONE devotional recently published by Barbour Books. I loved writing my portion of the devotionals; I hope you enjoy reading them.
Here's a sneak peek of one of my devotionals. Enjoy and then click on the link below to order your own copy of the book!
Follow
Your Leader
Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him
out of the village. Then, spitting on the man's eyes, he laid his hands on him
and asked, "Can you see anything now?"
Mark 8:23 nlt
Not once in my
thirty-some years on earth have I had the thought to spit in someone’s eye. Even
if I had, I can’t imagine acting on it because spitting in someone else’s eye
is quite frowned upon by society.
Jesus, on the other
hand, did just that. Not only did He spit in the eyes of the blind man in Mark
chapter 8, but He also used spit to heal a man born blind in John chapter 9.
That time, He spit on the ground, made mud, and put it in the blind man’s eyes.
Mud in someone else’s
eyes? Now that takes direction from the Heavenly Father.
In John 5:19, Jesus said
that He only did what He saw His Father do. That means He had specific
direction given to His heart from heaven to use spit in these healings. Jesus
could have easily said, That’s too strange
for me, so I’ll pray for his healing my way. Instead, He obeyed the
Father’s instructions.
God’s ways are unique
and beyond our comprehension. Just as Jesus imitated His Father, we are to
imitate our Lord. When He directs—even when we don’t understand—we are to trust
and follow His lead.
Father, teach me to trust your leading, even when
it is out of my comfort zone. I want to trust and obey you every time. In
Jesus’ name, Amen.
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