A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES 

                                       A HANDFUL OF MUD PART V

I, the man born blind, experienced something very unusual today... I sat on my regular spot at the roadside... A group of men passed by... But they then stopped... I did not know why they stopped.... I expected them to give me some coins... But that is not what happened... I then heard them ask some questions about me.... They wanted to know why I was blind... They thought it was perhaps because I had sinned... They mentioned as well that I might have been born blind because perhaps my parents had sinned... One of them, He must be their Teacher, answered them.... He told them that through my situation God's glory might be displayed in my life.... I was not sure what He meant with these words... But I just knew that something good was about to happen to me.... I did not know what it was or how it would happen... But I knew one thing.... I was going to trust the Man who spoke these amazing words.... I next heard Him spit on the ground and make some noise.... It sounded as if He was making some mud by mixing His saliva with dry soil... I soon realised I was right for I felt some mud put onto my eyes.... The mud felt pretty sticky to my eyelids.... But I did not move.... Or say anything.... However, the Man told me to go to the Pool of Siloam to wash they mud off my eyelids....I did not ask Him why I had to go there.... I just went there... And I washed my eyes.... As soon as I washed my eyes a miracle took place... I could see!!.... I knew I should go home to tell everyone what has happened to me... I am no longer blind.... I can see!!""... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn what happened to the blind man when he went to the Pool of Siloam....

                 ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES 

                                             A HANDFUL OF MUD PART V

Please remember that the blind man is not yet healed at the time that Jesus puts mud on his eyes as you can read in John 9:7b

So the man went and washed and came home seeing.

It is only after he has obeyed Jesus fully and has gone to the Pool of Siloam to wash his eyes that he is healed.