“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Luke 4:18-19 NIV
A couple of weeks ago this passage in Luke piqued my interest in a sermon at church. It really struck me because, well, my daughter is blind.
Now, I’ve read plenty of the stories about the blind being healed in scripture, and that has never bothered me. I’ve never thought, “Why would God heal one blind person here and another here, but not my daughter?” I already knew that the answer would be, “He has a different purpose for her, and that does not include being healed at this time.”
But, this particular verse stood out to me as peculiar because it seemed like a type of mission statement for Jesus, yet it seemed quite limited to me in the use of the word BLIND.
Why not say he would heal lepers, raise the dead, and cast out demons?
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