There is a strange story in Mark 8. Jesus is healing a blind man. He touches his eyes and asks him what he sees. The man says, "I see men walking like trees". He sees but he does not see clearly. Jesus touches his eyes again and then he sees clearly. It is a strange story because it seems like Jesus didn't quite have his healing wattage high enough to completely heal the man. Jesus is always using his miracles to teach. The disciples were very slow in their understanding of Jesus. In Mark 8 they were starting to understand who Jesus was but their sight was blurry at best. Jesus might have been giving them hope. Anyway, the story got me thinking about what I see and what I don't see. There is an insurance commercial where people are sitting in a circle and it is a sort of intervention. They are rehearsing all the costs of one person driving without insurance. The person had driven without insurance but did not see what the consequences were going to be. I think Satan approaches temptation like fishing. We are the fish and the bait is something that appears delicious. Embedded right in the middle of the morsel is a steel hook. I have begun to pray for eyes to see the steel. It is there...always. And there is always a glint of steel if we take the time to look. I am praying for eyes to see the steel. I am also praying for eyes to see Jesus clearly. Today marks the beginning of the holiest weekend of our calendar. Pray for eyes to see clearly the beauty and the wonder of the greatest story ever told. It is a story with power. Let your eyes let it in and let what you see transform your heart this Easter weekend.
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Interesting post - I always wondered why that story was there. Thanks for the new way of looking at it.
Once you see it it is no longer a story....it is clear as a morning brook. Jesus is alive and the steel hook can not penatrate our lives for He defeated satan when he arose from the dead. He took the beatings and scourgings and nails in his hands and feet for our sins what we deserved. He is our fortress our defender our shield. Embrase Jesus as Lord and Savior for there is no one that loves you as he does.
I like this. I also am remembering that we do see things now "in a mirror dimly". I can't wait to see fully. And to see him as He is.
Joe What might we as a church be doing for the West Virginia coal miners families?
If you feel led to help the WV miner families, why not investigate yourself and help?
Thank you for your suggestion for my heart is certainly bent on doing what I can personally too for these families. We are all in the family of God. These people love the Lord we at HCC love the Lord. Just as we reached out to hurting people in New Orleans, Haiti and India it was just a thought that there would be someway we would as a family following Christ's direction to attend to the hurting reach out to these families in love in their loss of their loved ones.
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