It's easy for us to think that if we saw Jesus heal someone, then our faith would be certain and it'd be easier to believe in Jesus as the Messiah.
But lots of people saw Jesus perform healings. At the end of his life, however, everyone had abandoned him. So clearly just seeing Jesus heal someone wasn't enough. It must take more.
Jesus understands this. When Jesus heals these two blind men, he tells them not to tell anyone about it, although that plan doesn't seem to work very well. Jesus knows it takes more than witnessing a miracle. It takes the work of the Holy Spirit, working within us, to bring us to faith. Miracles are a wonderful thing, but God is at work in so many different and often subtle ways. Let us be on the lookout for God at work in multiple ways, in all sorts of people, that we may recognize God's claim on all of creation in the magnificent and miraculous and ordinary.
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