You Were Seen Before You Fixed Anything
It is three in the morning, and the silence is loud enough to hear the fear whispering its oldest lie: that if you stop fixing, you will be seen as empty. You have been running on the fumes of other people's needs, terrified that without your utility, there is nothing left to love.
But listen. There was a moment when Jesus looked at a man who had done nothing, achieved nothing, fixed nothing, and simply said: 'I see you.' He saw him before the healing, before the change, before the usefulness.
He saw the person underneath the problem. The kingdom belongs to those who come without a resume, without a solution, without a single thing to offer but their own presence.
You do not have to earn your place in the light by carrying the world on your back. The light is not looking for a worker.
It is looking for you. The fixing was never the point.
You were.
Drawing from
John 9:1-7, Mark 10:14
Verses
Mark 10:14
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