3.7.15

Luke 18: 42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.
43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.

We know that faith precedes the miracle. And true discipleship followed this miracle.

4 significant events occurred : the blind man received his sight, he immediately followed Jesus, he immediately glorified God, and those who witnessed the miracle also praised God.

But the restoration of physical sight was eclipsed by an even greater miracle of healing, which the Savior desires to bes tow on all true disciples (recognizing the Spirit as the source of light in their lives).

Matt. 13: 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

It's the miracle of the eyes that see what's worth seeing, ears that hear what's worth hearing, and hearts that understand His wor ds and are converted. I'm just thinking of today's relief society lesson, about how we need to be steadfast in our testimony of Christ. To not do good things for others to see , but do good things because it is what Christ would do. To be an example to others simply by the choices we make.

I've heard a quote, "Live your life in such a way that those who know you would want to know, and feel like they know Christ." or something like that. It's not always by what we say but als o what we do, that we tell others of our testimony. Another thing we talked about is being happy. God created us TO BE HAPPY. And being happy does not mean no trails. Being happy means seeing the positive and looking forward to the blessings to come, even if it means looking forward to our end reward of being the Christ again. We have to look to the positi ve and looking for ways and reasons to be happy each and every day. When we count our blessings and remain positive, Satan loses. He hates losing, which means he will try us harder, but we must remain valiant and strong. Men are that they might have JOY. Choose to be happy and you will be. Count your many blessings and take joy in the multitude!