I Want to See

““What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him.  The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”  “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road. – Mark 10:51-52

His paced has slowed in the last year or so.  His small body showing the signs of old age, yet his spirit wants to be a young pup again.  Every step is taken cautiously as he uses all of his senses to compensate for his highly obscured vision.  Cataracts cloud each eye and blur the clarity of everything he looks at and it’s worse at night when the room is dark.  His name is Chance, and he is our 12 year old (84 in dog years) Bichon Frise~.  Man’s best friend.  I’ve watched him change over the last 18 months from a spry, playful and energetic personality to one that’s more cautious, careful and reserved as he has learned to deal with this disability.  That’s just it, he has learned to deal with it.  He compensates for his lack of vision through habit and leveraging his sense of smell and hearing.  Fortunately, we haven’t had major changes in our home furniture wise, so he knows the path(s) around the rooms.  Every now and then there is a chair that has been moved and he might bump into the leg of the chair, but it’s a rare occurrence.  

Chance’s situation demonstrates how most of us deal with sin in our life.  We learn to deal with it, work around it and through habitual behavior compensate for it in one way or another.  We are often blind to the destructive nature of sin in our life, because we are looking at it from a temporary perspective.  It’s hard to grasp the fullness of the unrighteous actions we take because the things we allow to influence our decisions have an impact on our own ability to see with clarity.  If I decide to drink excessively tonight and then get behind the wheel of my car, my decision has just endangered the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people that I may drive past on the way home.  I allowed my pride, arrogance and self-righteous behavior to influence my decision without consideration for the circumstances that might result from my action.  After all I know the path to my home like the back of my hand, I’ve driven it hundreds of times.  But, perhaps something could change on that route; a car parked along the side of the road, a ball rolls into the street followed by a child, a bicyclist is cutting across the street in the dark trying to hurry out of the way or any other imaginable change.  My reactions from drinking would cloud my judgment and cause my reactions to be slower.  It’s that easy to change the lives of others as well as my own based on a lack of good judgment on my part.

We are all blind to our sinful nature, but through Jesus Christ, we are offered the opportunity to be free from this blindness.  He has given us the visibility to righteousness, and the wisdom to know right from wrong, good from evil.  Just like the blind man in Mark 10 though, we must want to receive healing in order for it to take place.  Notice how the blind man called out to Jesus as “Rabbi” – teacher of the law and truth, wise man in God’s kingdom.  In the previous verse he calls out to Jesus as “Son of David”.  In his blindness, he recognized the presence of God in this man Jesus Christ and acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah.  This acknowledgment and the desire of the man to see again brought forth the miracle from Jesus Christ.  His restored vision though is a symbolic representation of the blindness we all suffer from daily, even if our eyesight is 20/20, our spirit is as blind as a bat.  Seek the restorative healing of the Messiah today and start on that path of righteousness with Him.

Prayer:
Father,
Thank You for the healing restoration of Your word.  Thank You for the miracles in our life that keep us from harm’s way.  Thank You for healing our blindness to our sinful nature and help us to learn from our mistakes and trust in Your guiding footsteps to keep us clear of evil and unrighteousness.  We walk in the faith that You are leading us and trust in You.  In Your name we pray – Amen


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