{"id":42235,"date":"2026-11-04T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=42235"},"modified":"2026-11-02T21:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:18:26","slug":"26-1105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-1105\/","title":{"rendered":"Miracles in Mud Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile I am in the world, I am the light of the world\u201d (John 9:5). \u00a0After saying this, Jesus spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva and put it on the man\u2019s eyes\u201d (vs. 6). Now there\u2019s something you don\u2019t expect to read in the Bible. Jesus spitting. A prayer would have seemed appropriate, perhaps a hallelujah. \u00a0But who expected a heavenly spit into the dirt?<\/p>\n

The God who sent manna and fire dispatched a blob of saliva. And as calmly as a painter spackles a hole in the wall, Jesus streaked miracle mud on the man\u2019s eyes. Sometimes God uses the less than pleasant. He initiates the miracle through mud moments, layoffs, let downs, and bouts of loneliness. \u00a0Can you relate? If so, do not assume that Jesus is absent or oblivious to your struggle. Just the opposite. He is using it to reveal himself to you. He wants you to see him.<\/p>\n

Remember friend, you are never alone.<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more You Are Never Alone: Trust in the Miracle of God’s Presence & Power<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhile I am in the world, I am the light of the world\u201d (John 9:5). After saying this, Jesus spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva and put it on the man\u2019s eyes\u201d (vs. 6). Now there\u2019s something you don\u2019t expect to read in the Bible. Jesus spitting. A prayer would have seemed appropriate, perhaps a hallelujah. But who expected a heavenly spit into the dirt?<\/p>\n

The God who sent manna and fire dispatched a blob of saliva. And as calmly as a painter spackles a hole in the wall, Jesus streaked miracle mud on the man\u2019s eyes. Sometimes God uses the less than pleasant. He initiates the miracle through mud moments, layoffs, let downs, and bouts of loneliness. Can you relate? If so, do not assume that Jesus is absent or oblivious to your struggle. Just the opposite. He is using it to reveal himself to you. He wants you to see him.<\/p>\n

Remember friend, you are never alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42238,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42235\/revisions\/42238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}