Dear Friends,
Like the man in our text, we are all blind by nature. Who can give us sight? Today’s text answers. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Mark 8:23-25 (ESV)

  23 And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” 24 And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.” 25 Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

TAKE A MAN

 “Take a man!

Take any man,

And touch his life

With the redeeming love of Christ,

And something happens.

Something good happens.

He sees more clearly,

He hears more distinctly,

He loves more deeply.

He comes to a self-realization

In proper perspective to others.

His sensitivity to need is sharpened.

Vague human shapes

Become people;

Real people who feel, suffer,

Rejoice, love.

Suddenly there is kinship

With all of life:

Statistics of suffering

Begin to breathe.

Vision enlarges, interest expands.

The world has meaning,

And he is no longer orphaned

In a cold universe.

Take a man!

Take any man;

It is true.”

[Carlton Buck in The Baptist Bible Church Visitor, (March 1983), p. 2]