![]() ![]() ![]() What if, when I am sitting in the dirt, in the dark, in my life, I let none of it stop me from calling out to Jesus? What if I don’t care what others think but instead cry out all the louder? What if I believe that Jesus is who He says He is? What if I throw off everything, absolutely everything, that would hinder me, and run in my blindness to him? What if I could speak those four simple words, “I want to see”?īartimaeus simply does not give two hoots about conforming to what others want. What if I had his vision? What if, in my own darkness, I had his tenacity, audacity and vivacity? What if all I wanted was to see?Įven as I write these words, I’m filled with a crazy hope, a wild wonder. A blind beggar sitting in the dirt alongside the road to Jerusalem knew what he wanted, and he couldn’t be dissuaded from it. He lived in darkness, and yet he saw more clearly than any of his seeing contemporaries. There’s something about his tenacity, his audacity and his fierce vivacity that inspires me. Bartimaeus may just be my favorite character in the Bible. ![]()
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