What Do You Want?

Matthew 20:32
So Jesus stood still and called them, and said,
"What do you want Me to do for you?"

Jesus and the disciples were leaving Jericho, surrounded by a great multitude. This is where we find two blind men sitting by the road crying out to Him, "Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David."(Matthew 20:30) In spite of the chatter all about, Jesus hears their desperate plea and stops to find the two men. Seeing them sitting all alone, unable to find their way, with compassion in His voice He calls to them, "What do you want Me to do for you?"

Jesus must have known what they wanted. Surely they were desperate to be healed of their blindness. So why did He ask? Could it be Jesus wanted them to speak their need, and in so doing proclaim, "It is You, Jesus, who can heal us! You alone have the power to give us our sight." The Scriptures continue with the words
           So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes.
           And immediately their eyes received sight,
           and they followed Him.       __Matthew 20:34

As Jesus asked them what it was they wanted, He asks us the same.
           "What do you want Me to do for You?"

He longs to hear our cry in the desperate places of our lives. Just as He stopped at the cry of the blind men, He will stop for us.

            In that day when I cried out, You answered me,
            And made me bold with strength in my soul.
                                                    __Psalm 138:3

And just as He answered their cry, giving them sight, He will answer us.

            Then you will call upon Me, and go and pray to Me,
            And I will listen to you.
            And you will seek Me, and find Me when you search
            for Me with all your heart.     __Jeremiah 29:12-13


           "What do you want Me to do for You?"
                                                          __Matthew 20:32

             May you hear Him calling.