Section 6
opens your eyes. So, first of all, the Lord pointed out that the blind man needed the light of life.
THE ANOINTING OF THE WORD OF LIFE
MINGLED WITH HUMANITY
Verse 6 is very interesting. "When He had said this, He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed his eyes with the clay." When I was a young Christian, not under standing the meaning of this verse, I laughed at what the Lord did. What He did was very strange. No one likes to touch a person's spittle. But the Lord Jesus mixed His spittle with the ground and made clay. Then He used the clay to anoint the man's eyes. The Gospel of John is a book of pictures, and this incident is a picture. We should not understand it merely according to the black and white letters. We must pray and look to the Lord that we may receive the true meaning.
I cannot tell you how much time I have spent in studying this point. I consulted various books in my attempt to find an interpretation, but I did not find one. One day, not more than twenty-five years ago, I saw the matter of the mingling of the divine life with humanity. This word "mingling" has been in use by us for not