Matthew 11:5 The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the wretched of the earth learn that God is on their side. (The Message)
When John was locked up in prison, he got wind of what Jesus was doing and sent his own disciples to ask Jesus if he the One they'd been expecting, or must they still wait?' Jesus told them to go back and tell John what was he was doing. Matthew 5 is what John was told. Jesus heals.
I had a little girl, Leah, in my daycare who was blind. She was born with two healthy eyes, but within a few months, it was discovered she had a tumor in one eye and the eye had to be removed. And when she was just over a year old, she had her second eye removed. With God and proper treatment, she was healed of her cancer.
Leah was an amazing little girl. She went to public school, rode on the bus, played outside with my kids and read huge Braille books. She loved to read and would read to my girls by rapidly running her fingers over a series of raised dots. She never let her blindness keep her down. She would take Laura's upper arm and off they would go as one person and we have so many stories of those adventures. She has since grown up and moved to California where she lives by herself and teaches Braille to children at a school for the blind and is writing a novel. This past year, she even flew round trip from CA to NH by herself.
Jesus heals, but not always the way we might want as I'm sure Leah's parents would have preferred a healthy sighted child. Leah's cancer was healed and she lost her physical eyes, but in God's plan, he knew she would be someone special. And now God has her teaching others to read and showing them how not to let their blindness keep them from living a full life.
Leah can see what God has done in her life and can see how he is using her to help others. Sometimes we can't see what God is doing even with perfectly good eyes.
Nancy