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HEALING OF THE TWO BLIND MEN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Matthew 9:27-34

Psalm 103:1-14

 

“Once I was blind,

but now I can see”

 

HEALING OF THE TWO BLIND MEN
 
Strong faith in Christ may sometimes be found where it might have been least expected. Who would have thought that two blind men would have called our Lord “Son of David” (Matt 9:27)? They could not have seen the miracle He did. They could only know Him by common report. But the eyes of their understanding were enlightened though their bodily eyes were dark. They saw the truth that the scribes and Pharisees did not see. They saw that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah. They believed that He was able to heal them.
 
We must never despair of anyone’s salvation merely because he lives in a position unfavourable to his soul. Grace is stronger than circumstances. The life of religion does not depend merely upon outward advantages. The Holy Spirit can give faith and keep faith in active exercise without book-learning, without money and with scanty means of grace. Without the Holy Spirit a man may know all mysteries and be lost. The poor and uneducated believe while the university man is full of hardened unbelief.
 
Our Lord has had a great experience of disease and sickness (Matt 9:27, 32, 35). He was an eyewitness to all the ills to which the flesh is heir. He saw ailments of every kind, sort and description. He was brought into contact with every form of bodily suffering. None were too loathsome for Him to attend to. None were too frightful for Him to cure.
 
We are all living in a poor frail body. We never know what quantity of suffering we may have to watch as we sit by the bedside of dear relations and friends. We never know what racking complaint we ourselves may have to submit to before we lie down and die. But let us arm ourselves with the precious thought that Jesus is especially fitted to be the sick man’s friend. The great High Priest is eminently suited to sympathise with an aching body and to look with pity on the diseased.
 
THOUGHT: Our Lord assumes that His people will engage in the visiting of the sick (Matt 25:39). Do I?

PRAYER: Father, use me to share hope with those in need.

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