Lo, I am with you
When the two blind men cried out saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David, Jesus stood still (Matthew 20:30-32). Though the multitude rebuked them, as if Jesus had more important and pressing matters to attend to, He still took time for them. He stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you (Matthew 20:32)? Hugh Martin says that in the biography of Jesus “we have the very Christ himself - the living Saviour - still speaking to us as never man spake, still going about doing good.” As Martin puts it, when we read the Bible we deal with Him, and He with us. He says, “The true and living Christ, present with you - secretly and subjectively present in you by his Spirit - deals with you. And you in the Spirit deal with the true and living Christ, present with you - ostensibly and objectively present with you - in his own holy word and history.” He added, “Jesus is here as he was there; here now, as...