Open Our Eyes

“Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.”  J Oswald Sanders

MATTHEW 20:33 They said to Him, “Lord, we want our eyes to be opened.”

I'm struck by the plurality of this request, how not one but two blind men, cried out, "have mercy on us,"  how two, not one blind men cried out Jesus Son of David, even though physically blind, spiritually they recognized His Kingship, His Eternal Throne. This caught Jesus attention, which led Him to ask, "what do you want me to do for you," to which they answered,"we want our eyes to be opened" 

Jesus knows what we need before we ask him, but He wants us to admit our need to Him. He wants us to recognize our own inability and acknowledge our weaknesses before him, for his strength is perfected in and through our weaknesses. We can only know ourselves by knowing Him and in order to know Him, our spiritual eyes need to be open.

Proverbs 29:18 where there is no vision the people perish

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