* Patch Adams - the doctors focused more on the problem than the patient.

* The disciples saw blindness, but Jesus saw a blind man.

* Jesus didn’t discuss theology without making it biography.

* vs 3-5 - the man was blind so God’s power could be revealed in His life.

* Whatever your struggle is, God’s power can be seen in you if you allow your weakness to be the stage for His strength.

* ex: Nick Vuijec.

* vs 6-7 - we’ve heard the phrase “mud on your face, big disgrace.”

* But if it’s Christ’s mud it’s the salve for a miracle.

* Can you imagine how irritating the mud on his eyes must have felt?

* But it was the path to his healing.

* Jesus allows irritations in our life to make us clean and give us eyes to see.