THE BLIND MAN'S GARMENTS

One of my favorite Bible stories is about blind Bartimaius in the 10th chapter of Mark. This is how the story starts...... Jesus is passing by with a crowd following him. May have been up to 2000 people. Imagine the noise level of this crowd. Even if they are being respectively quiet there has to be a murmer going on. There is a blind man begging at the side of the road. Then this blind man cries out...Son of David have mercy on me. The crowd tells him to shut up...don't bother the Master, but the blind man calls out louder and Jesus hears the cry and he stops...stands still and commands the crowd...bring him to me. When Jesus heard the call the crowd faded from him and he focased on the one man. He gives him his personal attention. The crowd goes to the blind man and tells him to cheer up get up Jesus wants to see him. Then an amazing thing happens. The blind man gets up and flings off his garment and goes to a personal audience with Jesus. Today we identify blind people because of their white cane or seeing eye dog. Then a blind man was identified with the garment they wore...so... When he stood up by faith he threw off his present his past. He threw blindness behind him. When Jesus asked him what he wanted? He said to see. Jesus said according to your faith be it done to you. The blind man received his sight and became a part of the crowd who followed Jesus. I think we all can learn a lesson from this blind man. When we call on Jesus and get his attention we need to by faith throw off our garment of fear, doubt, illness, our present our past and look to the future. That is where miracles can happen. To cast off the garments the world has put on us to identify who they say we are. We need to to look forward to who Jesus says we are.... The healed.... The saved.... The delivered. AMEN.