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Mark 10:51 – “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”
I, too, want to see. Physically, I can see, but spiritually I sometimes have difficulty seeing what is in front of me.
A few years ago, I worked the graveyard shift security at a hospital in central Austin, Texas. Shots rang out as I arrived on duty and thankfully, the guard from the previous shift was still there. We believe two people were in the hospital parking garage shooting pigeons with a .22 rifle. The police arrived and did a search of the parking garage. As the police searched, I decided to make myself useful and interview the several witnesses who sat on a nearby park bench. They had to of ‘seen’ something! I made my way towards them and from about 15 feet away, I began speaking to them. “Excuse me! Have any of you heard or ‘seen’ anything tonight?” When the word ‘seen’ left my mouth, I noticed that these people were all wearing dark glasses (keep in mind, it was 12:30AM) and had a dog and stick. Insert foot in mouth. They were all blind and in this case, so was I.
When I was in High School, I found out that one of my friends from Church had recently been raped by a coworker. This struck a major chord as I had sat next to this young lady just after the rape occurred and I was oblivious to her emotions. I wish I could have said or done something to encourage her, but I didn’t. I was blind.
Recently, a man named Robert Flores walked onto the University of Arizona campus and killed three of his professors and then turned the gun on himself. A few days later, it was found that the gunman had sent a 22-page letter to a local newspaper to try to explain the shooting. The letter suggested Flores was driven by his recent failures at school and home and felt that only his Great Dane loved him unconditionally. God convicted me hard-core. If a person feels that only his dog loves him unconditionally, what can we, as Christians, do to change that? People all around me are hurting and rarely do I just stop to listen, stop to pray, or just stop to see.
“Rabbi, I want to see” is my prayer. We cannot see in darkness. So it is by the light of Christ which we must be guided and lead others. A blind man leading a blind man is dangerous. I want to be sensitive to the needs of those around me, but not foolish. People are hurting, people are dying, people need Christ. The message we have is urgent, let us present it in the spirit of urgency.
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