A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                      NOT WORTHY OF ATTENTION C PART IV 

"I, the blind beggar from Jericho, sat at my usual spot at the roadside... A large crowd had gathered... They told me Jesus of Nazareth was about to pass by... I knew I had to act.... So I shouted and shouted until someone in the crowed took me to Jesus..... Then Jesus spoke to me.... He asked me a question.... He asked me what I wanted Him to do for me.... How amazing was that..... He treated me as a person.....   Someone with desires.... Most people do not treat me as a person.... They treat me as a nobody..... After all, I cannot do anything for myself since I am blind....But not Jesus.... Jesus sees me as a person worthy to have a relationship with... A person with an opinion worthy to be listened to.... A person worthy to be treated with respect despite being blind.... He sees beyond my blindness.... And He asked me what I would like.... No one does that... Every day I get dressed.... Someone chooses my outfit for me.... They choose my food for me.... They take me to the same spot every day to beg.... I have no choice in any of these matters.... But Jesus asked me what I would like Him to do for me.... I know what I want Him to do for me.... I want for Him to make me well... I want to see... And the first Person I want to see is Jesus.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn how Jesus responds to the request of the blind beggar from Jericho.....

  

                     ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                  NOT WORTHY OF ATTENTION C PART IV

Jesus stops and has the blind man brought to Him. Jesus will have instantly realised that the man is blind so we will expect Jesus to just go ahead and heal him. After all, what else will he have called out to Jesus for? But Jesus does not just go ahead and heal him. No, Jesus begins to personally interact with him by asking him a question. And the question Jesus asks him is, "What do you want Me to do for you?" He is, thereby, laying the groundwork for a personal relationship between the man and Him. His blindness will have cut him off from personal relationships with people. Many times people will have passed him by when he sat at the roadside begging but they will have ignored him. And here Jesus starts a conversation with him to let him know that he is a person worthy to be heard, a person with an opinion worthy to be listened to. He is not just a no-body, some blind person who cannot even properly function in society. No, he is precious in God's sight and the reason Jesus is on His way to Jericho is to meet him, this blind person. Moreover, Jesus hears his request, treats it with great respect and acts upon it as you can read in Luke 18:42

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you."

Jesus fulfills the longing of the blind man's heart to see.