Perfect Eyesight

  How many of us wear glasses?  Obviously lots of people wear glasses and we are grateful for them.  Think what our lives would be like without them. I, for one, wouldn't be able to drive.  Using a computer would be difficult.  I would miss the expressions on people's faces when they were talking.  For millions of people, glasses are a wonderful benefit today.
  In his day, Jesus healed blind people.  Matthew 9:27-31 tells us that two blind men followed Jesus.  They even followed him from the street into someone's house.   Perhaps, since they were able to follow Jesus, they were not completely blind but had suffered severe vision loss.  They had heard of Jesus and the miracles he was doing, but they hadn't seen him.  How could they?  Yet they had faith that he could and would heal them.  And he did.
  This is one of the occasions when Jesus told the people who were healed not to tell anyone.  But you have to wonder, if they had been blind or nearly blind, how could the blind men not go home to their wives and children with a big a smile?  How could their family and friends not notice that, all of a sudden, they can see.  It's not something you could hide, much less not tell anyone about.  So they ignored Jesus' instructions and spread the good news.


  For reflection:  Do I need physical healing of my eyes?  Spiritual healing?  Who else do I know who needs to have their eyes opened?


  Let us pray.  Jesus, I don't know why so many people lose all or part of their eyesight.  But I have faith that you are able and willing to heal all of us.  Come, Lord Jesus, and heal our eyes both physically and spiritually.  

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