Draw Near – 365 Guides to Greater Intimacy with GodSample

NO LONGER BLIND A Virginia woman was able to see for the first time in decades. Josephine Mulkey had been blind since an accident at age six. An operation restored her vision. She said, "It makes me so happy that I feel like singing "How Great Thou Art.'" One of the most pleasant surprises to Mrs. Mulkey was seeing what a beautiful family she had raised. Her grandchildren and neighbors looked much like she expected, "but much prettier." She added, "Everything I look at is so pretty." The ecstasy Mrs. Mulkey experienced is the same felt by the man who, having been blind from birth, was healed by Christ. The man was so enraptured by the new world around him that he was totally uninterested in the accusations of Jesus' enemies. He answered their accusations with this: "Whether He is a sinner-or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see." We who have been released from spiritual blindness get impatient with the critics of Christ. Our personal experience tells us that He indeed is the Messiah, and the arguments of the agnostics and the atheists seem silly to us. We once sat in darkness, but now we have seen a great light. When we experience something, we are never at the mercy of those who argue against it.