COMMENTARY

Don Atkin

GO, WASH AT THE POOL OF SILOAM!

Walking down the street, Jesus saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, causing him to be born blind?"

Jesus said, "You’re asking the wrong question. You’re looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here. Look instead for what God can do. We need to be energetically at work for the One who sent me here, working while the sun shines. When night falls, the workday is over. For as long as I am in the world, there is plenty of light. I am the world’s Light."

He said this and then spit in the dust, made a clay paste with the saliva, rubbed the paste on the blind man’s eyes, and said, "Go, wash at the Pool of Siloam." (Siloam means "Sent"). The man went and washed - and saw.

Soon the town was buzzing. - John 9:1-8a TMB

I want my town to buzz! I want your town to buzz! I want every town to buzz as a result of the church’s washing at the Pool of Siloam!

A primary purpose of the present-day apostolic reformation is for the church to be washed by the water of the word concerning the kingdom. An apostolic impartation by those who are "sent" - "sent ones" - will open the eyes of the church to her mission:

Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! - Genesis 1:28TMB

Current blindness in the body of Christ is not because of our sins, or the sins of our parents. It is the paste of worldliness, the spittle of religion, and the dust of tradition that must be washed away by the living rivers flowing from the innermost being of God’s sent ones.

May you run and leap into the waters! The Pool of Siloam for you has a face and a body and a personality. This Pool of Washing is a person with an apostolic mantle. We have this treasure - Pool of Siloam - in earthen vessels.

Go, wash. Wash until all of the paste is gone. Wash until your eyes are open to see what God is doing in the earth today.