Theme For David Jeremiah Daily Devotional May 28 2022 – The Difference: The Blind Man of Jericho
So they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.
Luke 18:37
Recommended Reading: Luke 18:35-43
Pastor Oswald Smith wrote a moving hymn about the difference Jesus made on people’s lives as He passed by. Take the blind man of Jericho, for example. Smith wrote: “One sat alone beside the highway begging, / His eyes were blind, the light he could not see; / He clutched his rags and shivered in the shadows, / Then Jesus came and bade his darkness flee.”
That story is told in Luke 18, which introduces us to a blind man along the roadside who begged for a living. He heard a commotion and asked what was happening. “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by,” someone told him. The man cried out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” (verse 38) Our Lord stopped and asked the man, “What do you want Me to do for you?” (verse 41)The man asked for his sight, and Jesus healed him. What did the man do with his new eyesight? “And immediately he received his sight, and followed Him, glorifying God” (verse 43).
Jesus of Nazareth is passing by. Let Him make a difference in your life.
He takes the gloom and fills the life with glory, for all is changed when Jesus comes to stay.
Oswald Smith
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