Blind, Deaf Beggars

Father God,

This morning I think about the words you gave me through John. Words you know would penetrate my heart and speak to me, reveal to me your truth. Thank you for his willingness to be your conduit.

Father, I pray today that I would be salt. I pray that every offering that I lift up to you would be sprinkled with salt…that it would be pleasing to you. I pray that you would help me be salt—in whatever manner you require I ask that you restore all my saltiness to me. And I pray that you would help every conversation and encounter I engage in to be seasoned with salt, with grace.

Father, I think about being blind, deaf beggars. All trying to help each other find bread—our gnarled hands extended, groping to find sustenance, nourishment. The blind often leading the blind. But you came to remedy this.  You came to make the blind see. To make the deaf hear. To turn these pauper beggars into adopted children.

Father, you do not mean for us to grope, fumble and stumble in darkness. You do not mean for us to eat the crumbs from beneath the table.

Father, please help us to understand this. Help us to comprehend that you sent Jesus to change the reality of all these. You came to change our reality.

But, Father, sometimes we don’t know how to live in that reality or how to embrace it. We still walk around and deal with life as if we are blind, deaf beggars. We continue to look at the world and not see. We continue to hear your truth and not listen and we beg when all that we have ever wanted or needed is already ours.

Remind us that you have changed our reality. Help us live in this reality so we can reach out and take another beggar’s hand and lead them to you.

Amen and amen.