Christ Will not Leave You Seeing Walking Trees

R. C. Sproul recounts an unusual healing by Jesus. In Mark 8, when Jesus visits Bethsaida, a blind man is brought to him to be healed. Jesus leads him out of the village, puts saliva on his eyes, and lays his hands on him. Jesus asks him if he can see. The man says, “I can see people, but they look like trees, walking.” Christ completes the healing by laying his hands on the man’s eyes, which gives him clear eyesight.

Sproul’s observation is keen:

The journey has but one guarantee: Christ promises to go with us and to bring us out the other side. Our Lord finishes…