Healing Through Being Sent

How Obedience Becomes Healing

In the Gospel of John, Jesus heals a man blind from birth—but not in the way we
might expect. After covering the man’s eyes with mud, Jesus sends him to wash in
the Pool of Siloam. John makes a point of telling us that Siloam means “sent.” That
small detail carries enormous weight.

We tend to think healing comes before mission. Get fixed first. Get ready. Then go.
But this miracle suggests the opposite: healing happens through being sent. The
blind man does not receive sight until he acts in obedience. He says yes before he
can see.

This challenges one of our most common assumptions: “I’m not ready yet.” We
say it about prayer, about parenting, about ministry, about the next step God
might be inviting us to take. We assume readiness means perfection, confidence,
or having our interior life fully sorted out. Scripture consistently tells a different
story.

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Abraham learned faith by leaving home. Gideon was called while hiding in fear.
The apostles were chosen long before they were courageous or faithful. God did
not heal them and then send them; He healed them in the sending. What God asks
for is not perfection, but faith. Not mastery, but consent.

For us, that consent may look very ordinary: praying out loud with your spouse,
leading your children in prayer, serving in a small way, saying yes to a
responsibility that feels just beyond your comfort zone. It will likely be messy. It
may expose your weakness. But grace meets us on the road, not in isolation.

There are real wounds that require careful discernment and healing before
major steps are taken, and wisdom matters here. But far more often, the voice
saying “you’re not good enough” is not prudence—it’s fear.

The blind man was healed because he went. What step might God be asking you
to take this year, or even just today, before you feel ready?

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