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

BLIND BARTIM^EUS 367
It is the man who prays and labours every day for
the good divine thing, and takes no refusal, that gains
it. " What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee "
II.
The thing -which this man asked for -was
best of all.
It certainly was for him ;
and I question whether
there is any better thing for us, to begin with
" Lord, that I should receive my sight." It would
have done that man little good if Jesus had made
him a present of the whole world, and the golden
streets and pearly gates of heaven as well, and left
him sitting in the darkness, with the awful night
brooding for ever over heart and mind. And it
would not add the least iota to your sum total of
enjoyment, if you were made master of the world and
all its lands and wealth, and had no enlightenment
of mind and heart to see the best and divinest
things
in it. The greatest of God's gifts to us is the
unspeakable gift—the gift of His dear Son ;
but next
to that in preciousness is what the Bible calls the
gift of the seeing eye. How much the seeing eye
means in ordinary things !
It really makes the great
difference between abounding wealth and extreme
poverty. The millionaire may be as poor as the
pauper is, and even poorer. He may be, if his eyes
see nothing but gold, shares, stocks, banks, and
figures ; if the whole world for him is packed into a