14. Wala ka sa Lolo ko. He once was blind but now can see.
6 September 2020
Am back into Caltex circle, guided back by a blind man, yes, literally blind. He is a blessing to me. Amazing Grace!
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2 October 2020
Am updating blog to acknowledge the person who guided back to Caltex circle.
Meet Joseph Tristan Marayag, nephew of Rene Perono and Rudy Basco.
Joseph was the way for me to get reconnected with "co-firefighter" Mon Manalac.
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He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!” (John 9:25)
The blind receive sight, several times the Lord Jesus displayed His remarkable power to heal the blind.
Matthew 11
4 Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see:
5 The blind receive sight, the l
ame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.
John 9
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath.
15 Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”
24 A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”
25 He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”
John 9
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36 “Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”
37 Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
38 Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
The man born blind encountered the Son of Man, Jesus, and was healed and acknowledged Him as Lord and worshipped Him.
During this quarantine, I had the rare privilege to hear first hand the testimony of a modern day man who was blind and was healed by the Son of Man, Jesus, and acknowledged Him as his personal Lord and Savior.
Meet Joseph Tristan Marayag.
Joseph or Tristan became partially and later totally blind due to freak accident, he being hit by the basketball and suffering a fall, during a practice game for try out as high school varsity player.
When I had the chance to know him up close and hear his story just recently, that accident in high school dates back 24 years ago.
In physical darkness, he encountered the Lord Jesus through Resources for the Blind Inc. or RBI during their summer camp program. Initially, he was introduced to the word of God by way of audio bible provided by his cousin.
Yes I said he was healed but you see in the video that he is still blind. He has been healed spiritually. His countenance is very lively and his smile is contagious. He has a family, a wife who is partially blind and a young son. He quoted, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (Jeremiah 29:11)
Here is a guy totally blind with completely better outlook than people with perfect eyesight. Joseph is physically blind but spiritually with perfect eyesight.
I am blessed to have met a man with such bright outlook in life. It was a privilege for me to discover his gift as an IT person and his hunger for the ministry which led me to bring him on board the church online platform task force at a time that my eldest daughter, leading the task force, sounded off distress call for reinforcement. The Lord works in mysterious ways. He is even a content writer now doing the fb posts, for the Sunday message and Wednesday prayer meeting devotion, for purposes of the fb post-live viewing.
Now the focus is on me.
One day, my children's children will say, wala ka sa Lolo ko, he once was blind but now can see.
The related passage in John 9 starting with verse 35 has the caption "Spiritual Blindness".
John 9
39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.
The Pharisees earned the ire of the Lord Jesus for being hypocrites, for being spiritually blind.
I lived the life of a Pharisee. I worshipped the Lord in my mouth but I worshipped myself in my heart.
Luke 18
11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
I cried tears in prayers.
I prayed in repentance, I worshipped the Lord with my lips, the lips of my heart.
I realized that the eyes of my heart had been blind all along after all. I was blinded by my self-righteousness.
The Lord had put mud on the eyes of my heart, by way of affliction, by way of chastisement.
The Lord has chastened me severely,
but he has not given me over to death. (Psalm 118:18).
The Lord told me to wash out the mud on the eyes of my heart; so I did. I washed it out with my tears. I cried tears in prayers, and I was healed; the Lord opened the eyes of my heart. I worshipped the Lord with the lips of my heart. I am no more spiritually blind. The Lord has put bright countenance and smile in the face of my heart.
Was blind but now I see. Amazing grace. How sweet the sound. Amen and Amen.
Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost
But now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost
But now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see
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