The Cup and The Coat

 

Mark 10:⁵⁰ And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.

He was used to his situtation and he had gotten and farmilized himself with a way of surviving. He got himself a coat and cup to help him cope with his blindness.

He sat there hearing people move on with there business, walking and leaving him there, but he was stuck there. How many times have you heard of people progressing with there career, there businesses expanding, others getting more education, people getting married but you are stuck there, nothing showing but a cup and a coat.

Look at the blind man cup and see what peole  give him at his hour of afflictions. What have men of this world given you in your time of afflictions, Fake promises, phoney friends, donations that wouldn't help. Because there was nothing they could give that would save him from his affliction. Men of this world can't save you from your blindness.

You may have everything, but there is a spot of blindness that you got that no education, no money, no wife or husband, no friends can fix it. And because of his blindness he could become part of this bigger society at the time. So he had to come up with a way of coping with life.  But he got something.

The blind man could hear and he could scream and he could cast away his cup and coat.

And Jesus stood still. His screams made Jesus stand still. He got the attention of Jesus. Are you willing to get Jesus attention.

Glory be to the Lord, that he stood still and and he commanded them to call him.

The very people that told him to shut were the very people that called him. he very people that couldn't pay attention to him had their eyes on him. I tell you...

GET THE ATTENTION OF JESUS, AND YOU GET EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION

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Should I cast away my coat or shouldn't I, it is all I got, the coat and the cup, it is my way of coping with life,

But Jesus has called........