Our paragraph topic is: (The blind men at Jericho) Part 8.
What would you have me do for you is the question that Christ asked the two blind men? What do you want? He heard their cries. He heard their sorrows. He heard their hearts calling out to him over the din of the crowd. He did not see them. He did not know them. But through all the noise and all the people that followed him he heard their hearts calling out to him.
They were two blind men sitting by the roadside begging for their daily needs. They had no work. They had no income. They had no way of providing for themselves. They were blind. They depended upon the mercy of those who passed them by. They depended upon the goodness in the hearts of men and women who had pity upon them. Many thought that they were sinners and did not deserve their help. Many thought that they had sinned or someone in their family had sinned. But here they were sitting by the roadside asking for help that they might survive.
And then the word came to them. The word that spread throughout the land of Christ's deeds and his miracles spoke to their ears. The word traveled by mouth, from one person to another. The mouth spoke the word and all listened. The mouth spoke the word and the two blind men heard. They believed the word. They hoped in the word and what it could mean for them. And the will of God came their way. Their hearts were filled with joy. They believed that they might have the opportunity for their dreams come true. And when they heard that he was there, they cried out. He heard them and asked: "What would you have me do for you?" They said to him, "Lord, that our eyes be opened."
Lord open our eyes! This, more than anything else was their hearts desire. They wanted to see. They wanted to know. They wanted to be delivered from the darkness, from the endless despair, from the hopelessness. They wanted to live in the light. They had their hearing. They had their sense of smell and taste and touch, but they could not see. They could not experience all that was, without their sight. And they could not provide for themselves without their sight.
Do you live in hopelessness? Do you live in despair? Are you on the merry-go-round of life not knowing your purpose or place in this world? We see so much joy and happiness in others in the media. Our appetites are fed with the material pleasures that we could have in our lives. Yet we live our lives in momentary pleasures that are here today and gone tomorrow and then we fall back into the daily grind of life. Most of us live by the wayside like the two blind men.
Why do we hurt? Why do we feel such pain, such anguish? Why is it that we are not happy within ourselves? What more is there to life that we are missing? Our joy, our happiness, our peace is not real but only fleeting. Is there more? Is there something that is real that we can latch onto? Can we not feel true joy within? Can we not be truly happy within? The two blind men only wanted to see. What is it that you want? Lord open our eyes that we may see!
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
What would you have me do for you is the question that Christ asked the two blind men? What do you want? He heard their cries. He heard their sorrows. He heard their hearts calling out to him over the din of the crowd. He did not see them. He did not know them. But through all the noise and all the people that followed him he heard their hearts calling out to him.
They were two blind men sitting by the roadside begging for their daily needs. They had no work. They had no income. They had no way of providing for themselves. They were blind. They depended upon the mercy of those who passed them by. They depended upon the goodness in the hearts of men and women who had pity upon them. Many thought that they were sinners and did not deserve their help. Many thought that they had sinned or someone in their family had sinned. But here they were sitting by the roadside asking for help that they might survive.
And then the word came to them. The word that spread throughout the land of Christ's deeds and his miracles spoke to their ears. The word traveled by mouth, from one person to another. The mouth spoke the word and all listened. The mouth spoke the word and the two blind men heard. They believed the word. They hoped in the word and what it could mean for them. And the will of God came their way. Their hearts were filled with joy. They believed that they might have the opportunity for their dreams come true. And when they heard that he was there, they cried out. He heard them and asked: "What would you have me do for you?" They said to him, "Lord, that our eyes be opened."
Lord open our eyes! This, more than anything else was their hearts desire. They wanted to see. They wanted to know. They wanted to be delivered from the darkness, from the endless despair, from the hopelessness. They wanted to live in the light. They had their hearing. They had their sense of smell and taste and touch, but they could not see. They could not experience all that was, without their sight. And they could not provide for themselves without their sight.
Do you live in hopelessness? Do you live in despair? Are you on the merry-go-round of life not knowing your purpose or place in this world? We see so much joy and happiness in others in the media. Our appetites are fed with the material pleasures that we could have in our lives. Yet we live our lives in momentary pleasures that are here today and gone tomorrow and then we fall back into the daily grind of life. Most of us live by the wayside like the two blind men.
Why do we hurt? Why do we feel such pain, such anguish? Why is it that we are not happy within ourselves? What more is there to life that we are missing? Our joy, our happiness, our peace is not real but only fleeting. Is there more? Is there something that is real that we can latch onto? Can we not feel true joy within? Can we not be truly happy within? The two blind men only wanted to see. What is it that you want? Lord open our eyes that we may see!
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
