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IDENTIFIED BY FAITH

 They went right into the house where he was staying, and Jesus asked them, "Do you believe I can make you see?"  "Yes, Lord," they told him, "we do."  Then he touched their eyes and said, "Because of your faith, it will happen."  And suddenly they could see!  – Matthew 9:28-30a (NLT)

      In this particular instance Jesus states that faith is a condition to receiving His healing touch. Two men petition Jesus to show mercy on them by removing the blindness from their eyes. Jesus’ focus is not on eyes that cannot see, but on the level of trust in His ability to heal them. The men truly believed and their blindness was removed.

      God promises us that we are His children, that He loves us, that we can do all things through the strength that He grants us, that the Holy Spirit indwells and serves as a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance that is still to come, and that we are significant in His eyes. But how do we actually reflect all of these promises in our lives? It is one thing to claim them as truth, it is quite another to trust in these promises as a present reality. Just like the two blind men, we will become what we believe. If we actually believe that we are who God says that we are in Christ, we will live like those kind of people. If we do not believe, we will never live up to our full potential as Christians.