June 16, 2020 (Tuesday)
Yesterday’s blog was an attempt to persuade people to become more optimistic. Why, some may ask, are some people reluctant to be optimistic when others find being optimistic under any circumstances to be relatively easy. Perhaps Vance Havner had the answer when he said some folks find it difficult to be optimistic because they have a misty optic.
I no longer wear eyeglasses all the time so I am not subject to the situation I used to face when moving from an air-conditioned automobile to hot, steamy air. Suddenly I could not see. My glasses got more than misty; they got completely fogged up. I was temporarily blind. That’s what Vance Havner was talking about. He was discussing something far more important than eyeglasses and physical sight. He was saying that one cannot be optimistic if he cannot see the truth. A great old song says, “Friends all around me are trying to find what the heart yearns for, by sin undermined. I know the secret; I know where ’tis found. Only in Jesus true pleasures abound. All that I want is in Jesus. He satisfies with the joy He supplies. Life would be worthless without Him. All things in Jesus I find.”
When the blind man was healed, he testified, “I was blind and now I see.” If we could have been there and if we could have become acquainted with that man, we would have seen him move not only from physical blindness but we would have seen him change all his ways. That’s what happens when a person gets to know Jesus. The old passes away, and life becomes brand new (2 Corinthians 5:17). The scales fall away from blinded spiritual eyes and the believer sees life through healed eyes. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found. ‘Twas blind, but now I see!”
HE SAW IT ALL
Daryl C. Mosley
2005
I was working in town one afternoon,
attending some business affairs
I heard a commotion a couple streets over
and wondered what’s happenin’ there?
A young man was running from in that direction
and stopped just to catch his breath
I asked him to please tell me what was the hurry.
He smiled up at me and he said,
I was trying to catch the crippled man,
did he run past this way?
He was rushing home to tell everyone
what Jesus did today
And the mute man was telling myself and the deaf girl
he’s leaving to answer God’s call
It’s hard to believe, but if you don’t trust me
Ask the blind man he saw it all.
Ask the blind man he saw it all.
My friend if the troubles and burdens you carry
are heavy and dragging you down
You’ve tried everything you can possibly think of
there’s no relief to be found
That very same Jesus that altered the future
of the blind man, the deaf and the lame
Is still reaching out in your hour of trouble;
One touch and you’re never the same
You’ll be trying to catch the crippled man,
did he run past this way?
He was rushing home to tell everyone
what Jesus did today
And the mute man was telling myself and the deaf girl
he’s leaving to answer God’s call
It’s hard to believe, but if you don’t trust me
Ask the blind man he saw it all.
Ask the blind man he saw it all.
At the close of each Tuesday blog I write about the presidents, in the order of their service.
Today’s president is