And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
The cry is the plea of blind Bartimaeus to Jesus as the Son of David for mercy. Jesus is near and passing by with an offered blessing, so mercy must be cried for earnestly and without letting the opportunity pass unreceived. For fallen sinners it is the cry God's word encourages them to lift to Christ in hope and expectation, simply turning the eyes to Christ and asking for mercy in belief of God's word without having to understand the philosophy of how divinity and humanity unite in Christ. In that cry for sin, Christ is looked to as the effective remedy for the leprosy of sin, the ransom provided for rebels and enemies, and the revelation of God's unparalleled mercy.
The same cry is the way to seek healing from Jesus as the great Physician, by bringing a sick person to Jesus in the arms of faith and crying for mercy for them. That seeking for healing means relying alone on the arm of the great Physician and laying aside all medicine, while holding faith for entire restoration and expecting to see and feel more of God's salvation. When answered, the cry brings sight and clearer sight through God's grace, a gift more valuable than gold, silver, or precious stones, with felt healing power and comfort, peace flowing abundantly like a river, triumph in God, unspeakable gratitude for tokens of God's love, new dedication to God, and strength to sound the last warning to the world, while faith keeps asking for complete restoration. In its wider setting, the chapter presents the united, persistent cry of God's oppressed people to heaven for deliverance near the close of the church's history, connected with the deliverance of the remnant. As commandment-keeping people glorify His name by humbly receiving the blessing, every worker is to walk humbly before Him, come down from self-exaltation, and seek the Lord with all heart and soul and strength and mind by searching the heart, setting in order things that ought to have been set in order, and preparing the King's highway.
The cry is the plea of blind Bartimaeus to Jesus as the Son of David for mercy. Jesus is near and passing by with an offered blessing, so mercy must be cried for earnestly and without letting the opportunity pass unreceived. For fallen sinners it is the cry God's word encourages them to lift to Christ in hope and expectation, simply turning the eyes to Christ and asking for mercy in belief of God's word without having to understand the philosophy of how divinity and humanity unite in Christ. In that cry for sin, Christ is looked to as the effective remedy for the leprosy of sin, the ransom provided for rebels and enemies, and the revelation of God's unparalleled mercy.
The same cry is the way to seek healing from Jesus as the great Physician, by bringing a sick person to Jesus in the arms of faith and crying for mercy for them. That seeking for healing means relying alone on the arm of the great Physician and laying aside all medicine, while holding faith for entire restoration and expecting to see and feel more of God's salvation. When answered, the cry brings sight and clearer sight through God's grace, a gift more valuable than gold, silver, or precious stones, with felt healing power and comfort, peace flowing abundantly like a river, triumph in God, unspeakable gratitude for tokens of God's love, new dedication to God, and strength to sound the last warning to the world, while faith keeps asking for complete restoration. In its wider setting, the chapter presents the united, persistent cry of God's oppressed people to heaven for deliverance near the close of the church's history, connected with the deliverance of the remnant. As commandment-keeping people glorify His name by humbly receiving the blessing, every worker is to walk humbly before Him, come down from self-exaltation, and seek the Lord with all heart and soul and strength and mind by searching the heart, setting in order things that ought to have been set in order, and preparing the King's highway.