Section 102
Section 102
BARTIMÆUS AND HIS COMPANION HEALED.
(At Jericho)
MATT. 20:29-34
MARK 10:46-52
LUKE 18:35-43
This is the story of the blind beggar, Bartimaeus, sitting by the roadside. Mark has the best snippets of detail:
"And throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus." Mark 10:50
The urgency of Bartimaeus speaks clearest through this detail. It reminds me of my father's rush to the ER when he was sick with leukemia. It helps me as I listen to our boxer of nine years breathing heavy at the foot of our bed with surely something similar. We are surrounded by the pain of others in this world, and even though the sun may shine today in our worlds, we are not ultimately excluded from it either.
Thank you, Jesus, that you care and honor our weakness--that you have pity on our condition, as you did on Bartimaeus. And, may our response and gratitude be also like the beggar's:
"Being a beggar, it would have been natural for him to hunt first for means of livelihood, but faith and gratitude prompted him to follow Jesus." -Fourfold
BARTIMÆUS AND HIS COMPANION HEALED.
(At Jericho)
MATT. 20:29-34
MARK 10:46-52
LUKE 18:35-43
This is the story of the blind beggar, Bartimaeus, sitting by the roadside. Mark has the best snippets of detail:
"And throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus." Mark 10:50
The urgency of Bartimaeus speaks clearest through this detail. It reminds me of my father's rush to the ER when he was sick with leukemia. It helps me as I listen to our boxer of nine years breathing heavy at the foot of our bed with surely something similar. We are surrounded by the pain of others in this world, and even though the sun may shine today in our worlds, we are not ultimately excluded from it either.
Thank you, Jesus, that you care and honor our weakness--that you have pity on our condition, as you did on Bartimaeus. And, may our response and gratitude be also like the beggar's:
"Being a beggar, it would have been natural for him to hunt first for means of livelihood, but faith and gratitude prompted him to follow Jesus." -Fourfold
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