Jesus Sought Us Out
“As Jesus
passed by he saw a man blind from birth.”
The man
did not ask Jesus to heal him. Nor did
anybody else do so on the man’s behalf.
Jesus
reached out to the man in need and healed him.
At the
end of the Gospel passage, “when Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, he found him.” The verb here could mean that Jesus came across the man (by chance). It could also be translated as Jesus sought him out.
That
Jesus took the initiative to heal the man, and what Jesus would say next
indicate that Jesus sought him out. “I came
so that those who do not see might see.”
In these
days of anxiety and much suffering, may we be more aware and believe that Jesus
knows our sufferings and our needs. May
we believe that he always reaches out and heals us.
Image: El Greco, Healing of the Man Born Blind, wikipedia.org
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