Title: Expectation of Faith/Matthew 9:27-31
It is said that there are six characteristics of people with a venture spirit. First, a person with self-confidence. I am a person who believes that I can do it. Second, I am a creative person. Creativity arises when you are confident. Third, you are an imaginative person. A person without dreams is like a desert. Fourth, he is a zealous person who never fails to cool off. Fifth, a person who knows how to refine himself. And sixth, a person who puts a lot of effort into concentration.
The main characters appearing in today's text seem to be such people. These people were blind. At that time, the blind man was not just a patient, but a disabled person. It is not a person with an ongoing disease, but a person destined to be blind. Nowadays, advanced medical techniques such as eye transplantation have been developed, but in the past, once you became blind, you had to accept it as an irresistible fate. I had to live with the so-called eight perineums.
It was a life in which I had to resign and give up on myself, saying, "I live like this, and this is the way it ends."
But they come to Jesus and ask him to open their eyes. These are people of faith who do not give up, and venture believers who boldly challenge the fate of their lives.
Dear brothers and sisters, today we need to examine our own mindset and attitude. You lived your life with your own expectations, but aren't there too many things that you give up on? Are we not inclined to give up or resign too easily?
"He's got better because it's simple, but mine is different. My illness is unusual. I'm wrong, I can't, I'm done, it's all in the past."
Aren't you justifying your renunciation by saying "my case is out of case"?
The two blind men, the main characters of today's text, never gave up on their lives or gave up on them. How could such obsession be possible? Although they were completely blind, they had several possibilities. First, he could hear with his ears, second, he could walk even if he staggered, and third, he could shout rather loudly. So when they heard the news that Jesus was passing by in front of their town, they became the happy protagonists of changing their destiny with a truly wonderful venture faith.
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