Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
The question put to the blind man about what should be done for him, and his answer that he might receive his sight, reveals a willingness to meet human need, offering pardon and freely given grace to souls needing salvation as well as sight to the blind. He is the great Physician who answers the faith-filled cry for mercy as the Son of David with comfort and healing power. The sick are to be brought to him in the arms of faith, with all medicine laid aside, relying alone upon his arm.
Faith receives present healing as the salvation of God, yet is not satisfied until entire restoration is given. That experience brings peace like a river, triumph in God, gratitude for his love, new dedication, and strength to sound the last notes of warning to the world. With sympathy the same question is addressed to the humbled and penitent sinner after reproof has exposed sin and conviction has made him feel his need and brought him to seek salvation. God invites him to express what he longs for and what help he desires, and lifts him up.
The request for sight is also a prayer for spiritual sight, for those who see things in a wrong light to ask God for mercy and for clear sight. Those who earnestly call to Jesus for mercy receive that clearer spiritual sight, which through God's grace is more valuable than material riches. The cry for deliverance foreshadows the united cry of God's oppressed people to heaven in the closing scenes of the church's history, a cry symbolized by the prayer message of the fourth angel.
Those privileged to work with God should offer this prayer for sight daily. Jesus in passing by offers a blessing that must not be allowed to pass without being received. Commandment-keeping people who wish to glorify his name receive him by walking humbly before him, coming down from self-exaltation, seeking the Lord with all heart and soul and strength and mind, searching the heart, setting in order what ought to have been set in order, and preparing the way for the King.
The question put to the blind man about what should be done for him, and his answer that he might receive his sight, reveals a willingness to meet human need, offering pardon and freely given grace to souls needing salvation as well as sight to the blind. He is the great Physician who answers the faith-filled cry for mercy as the Son of David with comfort and healing power. The sick are to be brought to him in the arms of faith, with all medicine laid aside, relying alone upon his arm.
Faith receives present healing as the salvation of God, yet is not satisfied until entire restoration is given. That experience brings peace like a river, triumph in God, gratitude for his love, new dedication, and strength to sound the last notes of warning to the world. With sympathy the same question is addressed to the humbled and penitent sinner after reproof has exposed sin and conviction has made him feel his need and brought him to seek salvation. God invites him to express what he longs for and what help he desires, and lifts him up.
The request for sight is also a prayer for spiritual sight, for those who see things in a wrong light to ask God for mercy and for clear sight. Those who earnestly call to Jesus for mercy receive that clearer spiritual sight, which through God's grace is more valuable than material riches. The cry for deliverance foreshadows the united cry of God's oppressed people to heaven in the closing scenes of the church's history, a cry symbolized by the prayer message of the fourth angel.
Those privileged to work with God should offer this prayer for sight daily. Jesus in passing by offers a blessing that must not be allowed to pass without being received. Commandment-keeping people who wish to glorify his name receive him by walking humbly before him, coming down from self-exaltation, seeking the Lord with all heart and soul and strength and mind, searching the heart, setting in order what ought to have been set in order, and preparing the way for the King.