“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.” Mark 10:51
Lord Jesus, (hallelujah) you know what we need before we ask. That’s why you came into the world to save us from our sins—not to simply relieve us of things and people that annoy us. But taking your question seriously, “What do you want me to do for you?”, is both freeing and revealing.
What do we want you to do for us, Jesus? Like this blind man, we too want to see—Jesus, starting with yourself. The more of you we see, the more we’ll see everything and everyone from your perspective.
We want to see ourselves as belonging to you, hidden in you, delighted in by you, and being kept for you. Jesus don’t let us think of ourselves without immediately thinking of ourselves as yours and beloved.
We want to see time as a gift to be stewarded, not a luxury to be squandered. We want to see money as the currency of grace, not the basis for our security and hope. We want to see suffering—not as punishment, something to get over, or (as the devil wishes us to believe) an indication you don’t love us.
Just the opposite, Jesus, help us to see suffering as a place to fellowship with you (Phil. 1:29, 3:10), and a means of becoming more empathetic and compassionate towards others.
Jesus, heal our blindness, myopia, astigmatism, and cataracts. We want to see all history and the entire earth as the storyboard and canvas for the history of redemption—not the arena of chance, playground of evil, or a scary place just to survive. It’s yours, Jesus, all of it. So Very Amen.