John 9:1-7: A strange cure?

I'd stumbled across this bit of John quite a few times before but never really gave it sufficient thought. Why did Jesus make clay out of his own spit and put it on the man's eyes?
I was thinking about this last night and a bit more this morning and I really believe that, with God, I've made some progress so I thought I'd share my thoughts.

What's the immediate reaction you have to this? For me, I think:
'Surely putting mud in someone's eyes or even near them is actually more likely to make them blind than cure them!'
You might think so, muddy clay made from spit seems a pretty unlikely cure for blindness but God uses the most unlikely to perform his will. He uses the underdog, the deceiver, the wimp, the guy with the stammer to lead the people of Israel. He uses the cross, surely the most humiliating symbol of defeat, to save us. He uses mud to cure the blind. We can't question or apply our logic to God's means.
Look at the results, the man regains his sight and tells people exactly how. We should never try and alter the exactness of the gospel. We should never edit or sugarcoat how God has accomplished what he has in our lives. We should be honest with all who ask.
'The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.'
(1 Corinthians 1:18 NLT)
And yeah, occasionally we shouldn't be afraid to look foolish in our defense of God; it shows we're doing it right!

And I was just about to wrap up the thoughts there with the conclusion that John 9:1-7 is a emblem of God's counter-intuitive logic and the importance of allowing his judgement to overrule ours and then he showed me something else.

'Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.'
(Genesis 2:7 NLT)
God created man from dust, but dust in itself cannot form a shape, it requires something to bond it together. I believe Jesus is illustrating something far more profound than the simple message above. He presumably made the clay which restored the man's sight out of the dust on the ground too.

We are held together, bonded into a living being by God with such an intimacy that he could have used his own spittle to do it. We are created in his image; God is such a part of us that he's inseperable from us. Even as sinners, God is still woven through our being. Without God, we would crumble back into dust. Collosians 1:17 says that he 'holds all creation together'. He sustains our existence even when we don't acknowledge his! That's grace.

God created Adam from the dust of the ground, he puts us together in our mothers' wombs (Psalm 139); God is utterly sovereign over his created beings and that means when he says heal, we're healed. Jesus mimics that initial creation (and he should know, he was there! Hebrews 1:2 says 'through the Son He created the universe') in his 'recreation' of the man's eyes. He's saying: 'I made these eyes in the first place and I can fix them' and he's also foreshadowing the day when he returns to renew and perfect all of creation, when all blind eyes will see! What an awesome illustration of his power, purpose and his infinite control over all he has created. Even when the enemy, through the power of sin in this world, has determined that this man should be blinded from birth, Jesus says otherwise. Hallelujah!

I hope this has blessed you.