The ‘do – be’ jam…

Here is something I wanted to share with you for several days now …
While reading and thinking about the story from John 9: 1- 38, where Jesus heals the blind man by sending him to wash his face I had noticed something that goes against the way we usually think as Christians. I so much used to the type of thinking that says that you really have to believe to be healed. But here we see Jesus healing the unbeliever and only then He asks if he believes in Him (vs. 35-38). Is that really the model of our own thinking and behavior?
I think in many ways as we approach people we never expect for anything miraculous or good to happen in their lives before they come to faith as we understand it. Therefore that creates the expectation on our side not to do anything good for the person (not to invest ourselves heavily in to the person’s life), sort of because he/she is ‘not worth it’, until he/she is ready to ‘believe’… And only he/she becomes ‘one of us’ we are ready to show him love as to one of our own people.

It amazes me how freely does Jesus give help to people… Especially if you take to attention the fact that even after the help is offered the answer to His question, I believe, could be a negative one…
This type of behavior on Jesus’ side however does contradict only with our own understanding of Christianity and not with the character of our God himself. For he is good both to righteous and unrighteous…
In many ways this is the one of those examples of Jesus’ behavior that breaks in my own head the theology of holiness by separation (away from the world). Because to do what Jesus did here takes a totally different approach and understanding of ‘worthiness’ and ‘readiness’ and ‘usefulness’ of people for the Kingdom. It gives a great example of engaging the culture and its needs not for the sake of winning of people in to something, but just for the sake of being like God imitating Jesus and shining your light forth for men to see. This makes me want to do things for no other reason other than being more like Him… which is by the way what we are called to be – be-lievers and not do-lievers.