Hey, it's day 20 on our 40-day tour through the Gospel of John right about half-time, and it is just flying by.

We're up to John chapter 9. We're going to cover the whole chapter today because it contains

one very inspiring story with all sorts of life application for us. Have you ever had an eye-opening

experience? I remember when I was a younger dad and our kids were a lot younger, we went to our

first ever NASCAR stock car race. We're all pretty excited because I've always been a racing fan and our kids were starting

to get the bug to.

But I'd never been to a race like this before.

And so when we got there, our expectations were pretty high, but we didn't expect to experience

what we were about to experience.

Right from the moment we walked into the stadium, I realized I'd never been in a sporting event

that had this many fans in the stands.

And I've been to some big sporting events, college football games with 80,000 plus people.

But a NASCAR race back in the day routinely had 120,000 plus people every Sunday. And so I'm surrounded by this

massive humanity, and it's kind of inspiring to be there. Then the race itself starts, the

green flag drops, and after the first lap, they're up to full speed, and the cars that look like

this, it's just a model model it's not the actual race car

but the cars are flying by at 200 miles an hour plus and they're bumper to bumper and they're

jockeying for position going inside and out the color the speed the competition the the

excitement pit stops that are it's like ballet and the symphony all woven together.

I know, I know. Some people just don't like racing and they just say it's a bunch of left

turns and it's boring and if that's you, that's fine. I'm not here to be an evangelist for

racing today. I'm just using this as an illustration. If you had an eye-opening experience like that, where your expectations

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