Sometimes my learning excites me and sometimes it humbles me.                                          Getting humbled doesn't always feel exciting but the results really are.                                    This week I was reminded of how I went through a healing process and it built my testimony once I understood why I had to go through it.  

      In John 9 we learn of a man who was born blind and it was thought that he or his parents must have sinned for him to have this malady. So Christ healed him and I find it interesting that as he healed him he was teaching the people at the same time. He says while spitting on the ground and making a clay, "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." then He put the clay on the man's eyes and tells him to go and wash in the pool of Siloam and when he came back he could see. A blind man lives in darkness, before knowing Christ we live in darkness. When Christ came He brought the light. The man didn't question Christ when he put spit on clay on his eyes or question why that pool he just had faith. When we have faith and allow Christ's light to reach us we too can be healed.                                                                                                                                                                                                  Last year I started showing symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus, I got very stressed about this, googling my symptoms and worrying, and worst of all despairing. It was a long road of pain and I will spare you all the details but when I began to have faith that I could be healed I began to be healed. I was able to find the right doctors (yes it took multiple) to help me. I am not cured, there is no known cure right now but I am living well.                                                                                                                                                            Later in the same chapter (John 9), the newly seeing man has been getting hassled by the Pharisees and they don't believe that he really was born blind and then healed and they want proof. All the man can tell them is that a man named Jesus healed him and he says, "If this man were not of God, he could do nothing." and they cast him out so Christ comes and teaches him who He is and teaches the Pharisees of their spiritual blindness.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Similarly, I was healed of a physical malady but because of said malady I was humbled first and I learned more of who my Savior is and how He heals and teaches me daily. Obviously, I am a work in progress as we all are but each day I can repent of my spiritual blindness and be teachable so that I can feel the light of Christ.      

In the name of Jesus Christ Amen.