It was September 27th, 1996.
The Baltimore Orioles were visiting the Toronto Bluejays. One of the best second basemen to ever play the game of baseball, Robbie Alomar, was at the plate, and went down looking at a called third strike. John Hirschbeck, who happened to be the home plate umpire for the game was immediately lit into by Robbie who felt the pitch was a ball.
They started going at eachother in typical baseball fashion and then……. it happened.
Robbie spit right on Hirschbeck's face.
You would be really hard pressed to find something more humiliating and despicable than that in our culture. As proof of how detestable it is, in his first year of eligibility for the Baseball Hall of Fame (2010), Robbie was kept out. Mostly all of the talking heads cite the spitting issue as the reason. 14 years after the incident and numerous apologies, it is still on the minds of the voters. Spitting on someone's face has never been, nor will it ever be tolerable.
Now, keep that in mind when you read what Jesus did in this excerpt from John 9:
"……He (Jesus) spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam". So the man went and washed, and came home seeing."
I know this was a long story to get to this point but I hope you hear this clearly:
You are far more valuable than spit.
So if Jesus can take something as detestable as spit on someone's face and turn it into something awesome….imagine what he can do with you.
Right now, He is waiting to use you…..will you let him?
The Baltimore Orioles were visiting the Toronto Bluejays. One of the best second basemen to ever play the game of baseball, Robbie Alomar, was at the plate, and went down looking at a called third strike. John Hirschbeck, who happened to be the home plate umpire for the game was immediately lit into by Robbie who felt the pitch was a ball.
They started going at eachother in typical baseball fashion and then……. it happened.
Robbie spit right on Hirschbeck's face.
You would be really hard pressed to find something more humiliating and despicable than that in our culture. As proof of how detestable it is, in his first year of eligibility for the Baseball Hall of Fame (2010), Robbie was kept out. Mostly all of the talking heads cite the spitting issue as the reason. 14 years after the incident and numerous apologies, it is still on the minds of the voters. Spitting on someone's face has never been, nor will it ever be tolerable.
Now, keep that in mind when you read what Jesus did in this excerpt from John 9:
"……He (Jesus) spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. "Go," he told him, "wash in the Pool of Siloam". So the man went and washed, and came home seeing."
I know this was a long story to get to this point but I hope you hear this clearly:
You are far more valuable than spit.
So if Jesus can take something as detestable as spit on someone's face and turn it into something awesome….imagine what he can do with you.
Right now, He is waiting to use you…..will you let him?
