An Inkling
There are two kinds of blindness: can’t see and don’t see. Few suffer the former. All suffer the latter. Those who suffer the former know it. Those who suffer the latter typically
don’t.
When those who suffered the former met Jesus, they usually asked
for healing, and he healed them. But
when you don’t know you’re blind, you don’t know to ask. Gratefully Jesus doesn’t always wait to be
asked (e.g., John 9).
Imagine the scene:
the “can’t see” blind man sees for the first time – sees colors, sees
the faces of loved ones he had only touched, sees the face of the Savior who
just healed him. New sights were soon
blurred by tears, and then explored over and over as the tears cleared, to ever
expanding joy.
It works the same with those who “don’t see.” At the touch of Jesus they begin to see, some
things anew, and some things for the first time. They start to see the beauty of God’s ongoing
works that they had overlooked – such things as:
- the splendor of the James River running at flood with the spring thaw; God does amazing things with simple gravity, light, and liquid.
- the wonder of our most familiar face companions, each made in the image of God, and yet each so unique and amazing.
- the astonishing capacity of God to work good even from evil (e.g., watch how many Muslims come to Christ not just in spite of ISIS, but because of it).
- and that most amazing beauty of all – the cross; the light which flows from its darkness illumines all, and is the essential source for new sight.
Thankfully Jesus doesn’t always wait to be asked. But it doesn’t hurt to ask. And so together we say, “May we see yet more
of your goodness?” And yes, he has yet
more to show us.
Watch and see!
Keith
