“Lord, let our eyes be opened.” This was the request from two blind men after Jesus asked them “What do you want me to do for you?” I mean, Jesus is God, and He had to ask these two men as if He didn’t know? You see, Jesus already knew what these two blind men wanted. In fact, right before Jesus asked them, the crowd that followed Jesus was trying to keep these two men silent, as they initially & publicly cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us!” Rather than moving on from them, Jesus stopped and asked the two men, “What do you want me to do for you?”

This story is from Matthew 20:29-34. I read it again today and couldn’t help but think about how today’s society is trying more & more to get us to shut up and be silent when we talk about God. Look left, look right and there seems to be growing efforts to keep Christians silent—to keep us from talking to God and expressing our faith in public. These efforts are trying to get us to be silent in our own thoughts, thus, relegating us to the ill-advised notion that “God already knows what I need, so why ask?”

God desires us to ask and partake. We won’t always get what we ask, but it’s a critical part of our growing relationship with Him. These two blind men in this passage had it right all along. Their faith in Jesus was the catalyst for their boldness to publicly ask Him for mercy and for their physical eyes to be opened. The irony of this, is that while their physical eyes were in need of healing, their spiritual eyes were already seeing 20/20.

How about you? Are you becoming spiritually blind? Or are you asking and talking to Jesus? Speak up, can’t hear you!