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2020 Vision, Week 3, Day 17

by David Joynt on January 21, 2020

2020 Vision, Week 3, Day 17

MARK 8:24 | And the man looked up and said, “I can see people, but they look like trees, walking.”

This is the only two stage healing in the gospels. Asked by Jesus about his vision, the not so blind man says, “I see people, like trees, walking.” This response indicates that at some point this man has been sighted, and hence can identify people and trees. It also shows that the initial cure is partial.

Some problems are not solved in one clear moment. They get partially addressed, worked on, prayed about, then resolved. Some answers come in dribs and drabs, rather than with the clarion call of a final revelation.

How acute is your vision?

Do you have any partially resolved issues in your life?

 

Tags: revelation, healing

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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