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Lord will have mercy on us. We also need to empty ourselves in order to see the spiritual real ity of the kingdom of God.

The Pharisees thought that they saw a great deal, and they regarded themselves as some body. Actually, they were nobody. They were even more empty than the tax collectors were. Likewise, although the disciples followed the Lord Jesus from the beginning of His ministry and saw the things that took place in His min istry, they continued to be blind. As we have pointed out, we also may be spiritually blind. Some of us have been in the Lord for years. Subconsciously we may think that we know a great deal. But actually we still may be blind, not seeing the things that we need to see. There fore, we need the Lord's healing. In the presence of the Lord, we need to have the deep convic tion that we are nobody, that we know nothing, and that we need Him to give us sight.

In our reading of the Gospel of Luke, we may wonder why the case of the healing of a blind man near Jericho is recorded so far along in the narrative. We may think that such a case belongs much earlier in the book, perhaps in the section that records the Lord's ministry in Galilee. Nevertheless, in chapter eighteen, when

the Lord is very close to Jerusalem, we have the account of the healing of this blind man. This case indicates that the followers of the Man- Savior need Him to heal their blindness.

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