Spectacles and Eyesight

I was just “catching up” with some of the translators, mentioned in yesterday’s post.

The four old men had asked me if we were distributing spectacles today. I said, “No, but we will have them for you tomorrow, God willing”.

They then went on about their age and their eyesight.

Something in me snapped. I said that the Man who healed Blind Bartimaeus still heals today. They were curious and open and so I launched into a full telling of the Bartimaeus story, with a couple of questions asked afterwards. Then I told them about my own eyesight healing a few years ago, and that I have not needed glasses since.

Finally, I told them about Moses, who died at 120 years old and whose “eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated” (Deut. xxxiv 7). I asked them if they were 120. They were quick to say ‘No!’ I asked if they were nearly 120, and again they said ‘No!’.

I asked them when Moses had that grace under the Old Covenant, whether they might receive just as much under the better covenant of the New? They smiled and nodded, saying how important it was just to believe.

So, with their hands held and standing in a circle, I led them in a prayer for the blessing of physical and spiritual eyesight and for their “youth to be renewed like the eagle’s” (Psa. ciii 5).

And with hugs and joy in the LORD we parted.