Your Breakthrough
As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed him. Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” (Matthew 20:29-30)
If you wear glasses or contact lenses, then you know what it’s like to go from having blurred vision to being able to say, “Wow, I can see clearly now!” It’s also important to note that that declaration, I can see clearly now, applies not just to reading words on a page, but also to navigating your way through life.
Just as this statement applies to the natural world, it also applies to the spiritual. It’s hard to function when you can’t see. It’s difficult navigating your way through life when you don’t have a clear understanding of who you are, what you’re doing, and where you are going. But when you get clarity, when God gives you a revelation about your situation, you are able to move peacefully through life knowing that you can see clearly now.
What stands out to me about today’s key passage is that the main protagonists, the two blind men, have a lot going against them. Not only does their physical disability prevent them from seeing the world around them, it also prevents them from being equal participants socially, politically, and spiritually in the world around them. They are effectively “nobodies.”
But the blind men in this story did not let the fact that they couldn’t see prevent them from moving forward in life. Their eyes didn’t work, but clearly their ears and mouths did, for while they couldn’t see Jesus, they could hear Him, and they could call out to Him. They chose to focus on what they did have going for them in order to make their lives better.
They could not see, but they could hear and speak, and by using what they had, they got the attention of Jesus. That’s when their breakthrough happened. And that’s when a breakthrough can happen in your life too, when you choose to focus on what you do have, rather than focusing on what you don’t.
If you wear glasses or contact lenses, then you know what it’s like to go from having blurred vision to being able to say, “Wow, I can see clearly now!” It’s also important to note that that declaration, I can see clearly now, applies not just to reading words on a page, but also to navigating your way through life.
Just as this statement applies to the natural world, it also applies to the spiritual. It’s hard to function when you can’t see. It’s difficult navigating your way through life when you don’t have a clear understanding of who you are, what you’re doing, and where you are going. But when you get clarity, when God gives you a revelation about your situation, you are able to move peacefully through life knowing that you can see clearly now.
What stands out to me about today’s key passage is that the main protagonists, the two blind men, have a lot going against them. Not only does their physical disability prevent them from seeing the world around them, it also prevents them from being equal participants socially, politically, and spiritually in the world around them. They are effectively “nobodies.”
But the blind men in this story did not let the fact that they couldn’t see prevent them from moving forward in life. Their eyes didn’t work, but clearly their ears and mouths did, for while they couldn’t see Jesus, they could hear Him, and they could call out to Him. They chose to focus on what they did have going for them in order to make their lives better.
They could not see, but they could hear and speak, and by using what they had, they got the attention of Jesus. That’s when their breakthrough happened. And that’s when a breakthrough can happen in your life too, when you choose to focus on what you do have, rather than focusing on what you don’t.
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