What You HEAR and SEE!

The students of John the Baptist had been ordered to go ask Jesus if He was indeed the Messiah, or should they continue looking for Him. And Jesus responds with this in Matt 11:5, “Go back and tell John what you have heard and seen - the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.” Nothing here was anything John didn’t already know... but perhaps he needed a different way of seeing that which he already had knowledge of.

And Jesus could’ve told John’s disciples a lot of things, but chose to focus on the testimony. “Go tell John what you HEAR and SEE!” John, here, was in prison and might well have been frustrated. After all, wasn’t it predicted that the Messiah would be the One who set the captives free? (Isaiah 61:1). And John wasn’t being released from his imprisonment.

And perhaps Jesus was providing a new perspective for John and His followers. Perhaps He was teaching them to be fixated on only that which you HEAR the Father saying and SEE the Father doing.

Perhaps it would be the most beneficial of my life to remain preoccupied by His character and by His credentials.

I must feed my soul on what He’s saying and said, and on what He is doing and done!