He looked up and said, "I see people; they look like trees walking around." Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. (Mark 8:24,25)
Why did jesus use two steps to restore the blind man’s eye sight? Couldn’t he have it done at one go? At the fist stage the man sees with a blurred vision but when Jesus touches again he sees clearly. Is it telling us something about spiritual sight?
The chapter begins with Jesus feeding a 4000, then we see Pharisees coming to argue with Jesus, then Jesus & disciples leave on a boat. Jesus warns his discples of the "leaven of the Pharisees” referring to false teaching of the Pharisees. But disciples thought Jesus was talking about “literal" bread. Jesus then rebuked the disciples by asking how they could be SO BLIND after having seen and been with him.
Could this miracle have to show something about His disciples’ understanding of Jesus?? They could “see” but their understanding was still very poor, they needed a second touch. Their understanding was coming in stages. We might be church goers, know several verses of the bible, can re-tell several stories of the bible, but our sight/our proper understanding and revelation of Christ matters!! We all experience God in stages but let us ask God to heal us of any blurred or cloudy spiritual vision…At the end of the chapter we read about Peter’s revelation of Christ !!! Let us pray that healing to touch our inner eyes!
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