Hosanna Restoration Church

This is graduation season. Some countries make a really big deal of it and others don’t. In America it is a pretty big deal and in our home we once again have a graduate. Graduation is another step forward in the life that God has given us.

While this day for a High School Senior is a landmark graduation, in truth, we all graduate often during out lives. We graduate in wisdom. We graduate in strength. We graduate in age. We graduate in many areas, and each graduation brings change to our lives. Ideally, all of our graduations are positive, but the truth is we sometimes change for the worse. The news is that we can choose for the better.

In our scripture today we see a blind man graduating from darkness to light. He who was blind can now see. Even though he says he is the same man, the truth is he is a very different man now that he can see. What made the difference for him? He went where he was sent. Yes Jesus told him to go and wash the mud from his eyes and the Living Bible says, “He went where he was sent and He came back seeing.

Each graduation in our lives brings about change. No graduation brings us to a stopping point; it only brings us to another place from which to move ahead. We will continue to graduate until the time that we graduate from this life to the next. That will be the biggest graduation of all.

If during our lifetime we have graduated from death, which is living without Christ, to life, which is living with Christ, then that graduation will be one to eternal life with the Lord. The alternative of course, is eternity without Him. Not fun!

Each graduation is an exciting step in life and brings us into a greater place to grow. Young people leave home and grow into life on their own and that offers lots of avenues for graduation. The enemy is out there looking for those that he can entice into his kingdom, and many are seduced to graduate steadily toward death. Still, the whole time Jesus stands ready to hear the faintest cry for help. That cry starts a process that changes blind eyes to seeing eyes and transforms us from death to life.

It is my prayer to graduate steadily into a deeper relationship with our Lord. It is my prayer for graduates all over the world that they do the same. It is my prayer for people everywhere that they would know the thrill of graduation into the Kingdom of God and hear Him say well done.

Congratulations graduates. Well done!