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

370 BLIND BARTIM/EUS
Ask that your soul may be enlightened, and your
eyes opened. Happiness lies in that direction, not
in the other. That is the best thing
u Lord, that
might receive my sight."
I
III.
When this man got his
prayer answered, he
saw, and went after the best.
Immediately he had received his sight he followed
Jesus in the way. There was a whole universe of
wonderful and beautiful things disclosed to him. It
must have been so. You cannot imagine what a
blind man would feel at such a moment, when the
whole panorama of nature and human life was set
before him suddenly for the first time. You have
seen it always. It has become familiar to you, and
the wonder, romance, and glory of it, have for the
most part died away. To him it would be all a new
creation—the blessed sunshine, the blue of the sky,
the green of the meadows, the tall palm trees, the
palaces and walls of Jericho, the crowd of people, the
faces of women and children. Imagine all this
beauty springing upon him at once
;
you can fancy
him saying, I could feast my eyes on these things for
ever. And then read this final touch :
" He followed
Jesus in the way." There was nothing so well worth
looking at as that dear face—nothing which drew
him so much as the service and attractive power of
Jesus. And when your eyes are full)' opened, it will