The Mercy Prayer by Robert Gelinas

Author:Robert Gelinas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2013-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Try to picture it. Two blind men following Jesus. How did they do this? Did they use makeshift canes to help them feel their way down the street and through the crowd? Did they listen for his voice, adjusting their courses every time they heard him say something? Did they ever lose him because he turned a corner, forcing them to desperately ask bystanders, “Which way did he go?” in order to be steered in the right direction? Did they link arms and feel their way down the streets and the buildings?

Somehow these two men followed Jesus though they couldn’t see where he was or where he was going. They persisted because, while they couldn’t see him, they had heard about the things he had done in the lives of others.

They overheard whispers about a woman who had a menstrual flow that would not stop for over a decade of her life, which had reduced her to a shell of a woman by the time she met Jesus, socially outcast, physically and financially depleted. She merely touched the corner of his garment, and Jesus healed her.

They heard about this girl who was cold dead, and Jesus went to her house and raised her to life again. “News of this spread through all that region,” say the Scriptures, and no wonder (Matt. 9:26).

While they had not seen Jesus, they had heard about what he could do, and now they were following him by faith and not by sight. Their request was simple: “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” There it is again: the most asked and most answered prayer. As they tracked and trailed him, they kept saying, “Have mercy on us, Son of David! Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Did you catch that? They knew who he was: the Son of David. That’s the title given to the Messiah in the Old Testament. The one who would come from the line of David. The one who would sit on the throne of David. The one who would rule forever. Son of David: the Messiah, the Anointed One. This was the one they had been waiting for. The prophets had spoken of him.

My guess is they knew what the Messiah was supposed to do. While they may not have been able to read the Old Testament themselves, they must have heard it read. There was one passage about the Messiah that they probably memorized. It’s found in Isaiah 35, and it speaks of what the Son of David was supposed to do when he arrived.

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