Get your 2020 vision!

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Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Today: Get your 2020 vision!

Passage: Mark 8: 22-25 NIV

22They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. 23He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?”

24He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.”

25Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

This blind man was healed by Jesus in two stages

Jesus did this miracle after trying to speak to his disciples about the “leaven of the Pharisees”; Jesus was talking about their false teachings

The disciples thought Jesus was talking about food.

21He said to them, “Do you still not understand?” (Mark 8: 21, NIV)

It hurts when you speak in simple terms and your listeners don’t understand

Many parents are hurt when their children don’t understand and obey what they say

Later on, it could be too late when they really understand what was said

So, this man’s two-step healing was probably a message for the disciples

Their eyes were not fully opened, to grasp what Jesus was saying

This blind man plainly admitted that he was not fully healed, in the first stage

He confessed: “I see people; they look like trees walking around.”

People can be compared to trees in so many ways, but they don’t look alike

Jesus himself told the comparison of a wine, that the master prunes

In the favorite psalm 1, a righteous man is compared to a tree by the water

There are many who claim to be believers in God, who don’t see others the way they should see them

Jesus had great compassion on people whenever He saw them in some kind of a need. He immediately dealt with it

Whenever He saw sick people, He wanted to heal them

When He saw oppressed people, He wanted to set them free

When He saw a person living in sin, He wanted to save that person. Jesus saved the life of a woman whom people caught in an act of sin

Today, many believers are more interested in finding people in sin but not saving them; they stone them, before even bringing them to Jesus

Those people, who brought that woman to Jesus, were better than that!

Before we “stone” someone for their sins next time, remember Jesus

WWJD? (What would Jesus do) in this situation?

When Jesus saw the hungry, He fed them

When He saw the demon-possessed, He healed them and delivered them

Jesus wants our eyes to be opened fully, to see people the way Jesus sees them

While our political candidates are declaring their views and visions as the election is approaching, it is time for us to examine our views

Some of them speak proudly about things that are sinful and shameful

But more painful is when so called spiritual leaders go worse than them

We should pray for these people: political leaders as well as spiritual

We need to ask God to open our own eyes to see God as He is, and people, as they are

Many a time, we look at people with a judgmental attitude

How do we expect God to look at us?

Are we one of those who ran away from Jesus after the first stage of healing, saying “I got my sight!”?

Partial sight could sometimes be dangerous than blindness!

-especially when we think we have full sight and go about doing things

We can get into lot of “accidents” thereby hurting others

It is better to come home to Jesus and sit at His feet and ask for a second touch from Him

God bless you and give you perfect vision- a 20/20 vision

BG

Prayer: Lord Jesus. I need full vision- to see you as you are and to see others as you see them. Let others be blessed through every action of mine. Help me to sit at your feet, and receive from you a healing, before I go out and become a blessing for them. Amen

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