After Jesus raised Jarius' daughter from her deathbed, He was followed home by two blind men who recognized Him as the Son of David. Jesus seemingly ignored them until He went inside the house where He was staying and then asked them if they truly believed He was able to heal them. I don't think Jesus was questioning their belief regarding His power, but rather His desire to use that power to heal them. Could His power actually open the eyes of the blind?
This is a very important question that many of us Christians need to ask ourselves regarding our perspective of the Savior. Do we really and truly believe that He is able and willing to heal us, deliver us, set us free, open our spiritual eyes to the wonders of God, or whatever our request may be? Even raise a loved one from the dead?
These men answered "yes" and then Jesus opened their eyes - a picture of the post 30 AD believer whose spiritual eyes would be opened based solely on the preaching of the Word. He told them that they were healed in accordance with their faith - a very important spiritual truth for us to remember.
When these men were sent away, a mute man was delivered of a demon and his tongue was loosed. The multitudes were astonished at these events and marveled at all Jesus was doing in Israel.
The beauty of recognizing Jesus as Messiah (the Son of David) is that we become born again, and our spiritual eyes are opened just as these blind men's eyes were opened in the natural. While natural sight is wonderful, spiritual sight is far and above more important than anything we can see in the natural realm.
As new creations IN Christ, God gives us eyes to see and a tongue to confess the wonderful things He is doing on this earth. Praise Him for such a glorious gift!
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