The gift from above “Healed with dust”

Good parenting:

As parents, it is our responsibility to account for our children. It does not matter how old they get; we will continue to be responsible for them. Children are a blessing from the Lord (Ps 127:3). Parenting nowadays has become more challenging than ever, with all the legislation passed, but when the dust settles, parents are held accountable for their children. So, the question is, what makes a good parent? Out of a list of 10 points for good parenting, I want to pay special attention to 3, and they are: 1. Unconditional love. 2. Patience. 3. Support and Encouragement. With each child being different, out of the 10, these three have the most impact on their lives. Children with disabilities require a bit more of the three mentioned above than those without. The parents of the child, who was born blind, mentioned in John chapter 9, had their hands full. They did not have all the assisted services that are offered to children with special needs today. They, without requesting it, got a relief from heaven.  

John 9:19-23

¹⁹ “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”

²⁰ “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. ²¹ But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” ²² His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had already decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. ²³ That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

Jesus healed the man, the son who was born blind. The thought in those days was that if a person was born with a physical disability, it was because their parents had sinned, but not in this case. This man was born with his disabilities for the glory of God (Jn 9:3). Like the man born blind, there is also the man born lame mentioned in Acts 3, who God healed through Peter and John (Acts 3:6-8). The process for this man’s healing goes back to creation. God made man from the dust of the earth, and he breathed air into him (Gen 2:7).  We are told in the book of Ecclesiastes that the dust will return to earth, and the spirit goes back to God (12:7). So, we know where the dust comes from and where the spirit is going. God created all things with the word he spoke, but man was taken from the dust as a symbol of a lowly state that he was going to have. God remembers that we are dust (Ps 103:14). Jesus healed this man by spitting on the ground and making clay with the dust. He anointed the man’s eyes with the clay (Jh 9:6) and sent him to wash in the pool of Siloam. As soon as he washed, he was healed. 

These parents were confronted to respond about their child, but held back. They refused to stand by their son. They knew that Jesus healed him, and yet, because of their fears, they left him to defend himself alone. Salvation is on an individual basis. Just because no one is physically standing next to you when your faith is in question does not mean that God is not there (Ps 27:10).

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