Category: Do you see anything? Mark 8:23

Today’s Scripture: John 5:9-13 I must confess this story creates more questions for me than answers. John states that a “great number of disabled people” were lying at the pool, waiting for their opportunity to be put into the water. Why did Jesus ignore the others and focus only on this one man? Did an angel really come and trouble[…]

Today’s Scripture: Mark 8:25; 2 Corinthians 5:17 The Lord always works with precision and perfection. Not only did He assure that the man’s vision was exact. He sealed the healing with final instructions for the man to not return to the village. Maybe unbelieving people lived in the town and they had too much negative influence on him. Or perhaps[…]

Today’s Scripture: Proverbs 27:17 Let’s spend one more day on the blind man’s distorted vision. Notice Jesus didn’t change everyone else to conform to the man’s vision. Instead, he changed the man’s vision to conform to truth. Have you ever found yourself wanting everyone else to adjust to your expectations? I have. All too often I’ve learned (the hard way)[…]

Today’s Scripture: Mark 8:23-24, Philippians 1:6, 2 Peter 3:8-9 Aren’t you glad the Lord finishes what He starts? And His work is absolutely without flaw. Sometimes we interpret his perfect work as slowness or unconcern. The Lord isn’t slow. He’s patient. (See 2 Pet. 3:8-9). We need to be equally forbearing while we wait for Him to complete a work[…]

Today’s Scripture: Mark 8:24-25 When Jesus asked the blind man if he saw anything, he responded, “I see people; they look like trees walking around” (Mark 8:24). Apparently, he had some idea of what people and trees looked like, either because at one time he had his sight, or his friends had narrated clear descriptions for him. His sight may[…]

Today’s Scripture: Mark 8:23, 7:32-33; John 9:6-7, Jesus had a knack for the unusual. And this story of healing is no exception. He spit on the man’s eyes and put His hands on him. John tells of another time when Jesus spit on the ground, made mud and applied it to a blind man’s eyes (John 9:6-7). Another time He[…]

Today’s Scripture: Mark 8:23, John 4:35 Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him away from the village—his familiar space. Imagine the apprehension the man must have felt. He was being removed from the known to the unknown—by a perfect stranger. There must have been something about Jesus that communicated confidence and faith into this man’s spirit,[…]

Today’s Scripture: Mark 8:22-26  The miracles of Jesus are fascinating to study. At times, He merely spoke one word and healing happened. In a few cases, He didn’t even show up on site. Instead He worked long-distance. Today He might be called a virtual healer. On a couple of occasions, He was extremely unorthodox, like the time He spit on[…]

Today’s Scripture: Mark 8:25; 2 Corinthians 5:17 The Lord always works with precision and perfection. Not only did He assure that the man’s vision was exact. He sealed the healing with final instructions for the man to not return to the village. Maybe unbelieving people lived in the town and they had too much negative influence on him. Or perhaps[…]

Today’s Scripture: Proverbs 27:17 Let’s spend one more day on the blind man’s distorted vision. Notice Jesus didn’t change everyone else to conform to the man’s vision. Instead, he changed the man’s vision to conform to truth. Have you ever found yourself wanting everyone else to adjust to your expectations? I have. All too often I’ve learned (the hard way)[…]