The miracles of Jesus - Classical Christian Literature by Athleo.net

BLESSINGS PROPORTIONED TO
FAITH
The Opening of the Eyes of Two Blind
Men
"According to your faith be it unto you." Matthew ix. 29.
THIS suggestive and inspiring utterance of our Lord's
accompanied the cure of two blind men. It was
intended to give us inward illumination, of which their
restored eyesight was a symbol. They appear to
have surpassed most of the people around them in
their believing expectation, and therefore in their
readiness to receive the special blessing they sought.
Perhaps their very privation had helped them.
Shut off
from ordinary scenes which often distract men from
their spiritual needs and possibilities, they had evidently
been thinking over what Jesus had done elsewhere,
and of what He might graciously do for them. True,
no blind men had been previously cured (so far as we
know), though the affliction was very common, owing
to the custom of sleeping in the open, to the prevalence
of sandstorms, and to the glaring reflection of
light in a country where verdure was rare. But
though this was probably the first occasion of such a
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