A Huge Gulp Of Blind Faith

This morning I was reading an article in a magazine and read the line ". . . I took a huge gulp of blind faith . . ." Only later did I realize that although my eyes finised scanning the article, my mind was dwelling on the blind faith comment. I found myself thinking about the huge gulp of blind faith , and what that might look like. I pondered the idea visually, of a person with a huge plastic cup filled with blind faith, and ready or not here it comes pouring forth from the cup. You are either ready to swallow, or ready to get wet, washed up, drenched or worse! Then I pondered if faith was truly ever blind? I know, I know, you're probably asking "are there not more pressings things to wonder about . . . Like world hunger?" Perhaps. but for me right now, the notion of blind faith was a bit compelling.

I did, at that point, what I always do when a thought captivates me, I go to the Word of God.

I rolled my eyes and tisked my tongue at the simplicity of what I already knew to be true. I remembered the story of the blind man who was healed by Jesus. Look what Mark 10:46–52 teaches. Jesus was nearing Jericho and there on the side of the road sat a blind man. He sat there every day begging. He heard the crowds passing and asked what was going on. He was told that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. The blind man began hollering, and calling out, saying "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
When people kept trying to shut him up, he wouldn't be stopped! This was a man on a mission! He was unrelenting and he knew all he had to do was to be heard. Jesus did hear him. And the exciting part of this story is that when Jesus asked the blind man what he wanted. The blind man was specific and direct. He said "I want to receive my sight." Then, Jesus said that his faith had made him well.

The result of the blind man taking a huge gulp of blind faith, was that he was indeed made whole. He was no longer blind! In fact, the first thing he did was follow Jesus and praise God . . . AND . . . all the people who witnessed it, praised God too!

So, taking a huge gulp of blind faith generated wholeness and a worship service beyond imagination! No that's blind faith!

The New King James Version. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 1982, S. Lk 18:35-43