The Miracle Worker

Imagine that you could not see these words or hear them spoken! This was the case for a young girl named Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) who lost both her vision and hearing at the age of 18 months.  At the age of 7, her parents decided to hire a teacher to try to help her to somehow overcome this seemingly impossible handicap. Her breakthrough story is one of the most incredible cases in history... 

Helen once asked her teacher, Anne Sullivan, what God's name was. Anne finger-spelled “G-O-D” into Helen's hand, and the young blind and deaf girl smiled. Helen finger-spelled her reply: "I ALWAYS KNEW who He was, and NOW I know 
HIS NAME!"

Amazing! And isn’t this truth EXACTLY what we learn from God’s Word?
“For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been CLEARLY SEEN, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse” (Romans 1:20 NIV).

Even though Helen Keller could not see or hear, she KNEW of God’s existence because of “what has been made.”

"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a GOD-MADE world, NOT a manmade world."  Helen Keller.

What a remarkable observation for one so severely handicapped... 
For a young girl who was blind and deaf from the age of 18 months, she understood the nature of the world around her better than many. She lived in SILENCE. She lived in DARKNESS. But even in her dark and silent world, she KNEW of the existence of God! There is certainly NO excuse for YOU and ME!

Observe some more of the insights of this remarkable woman:

• “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” -- H. Keller

• “I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God." -- H. Keller

• "There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark." -- H. Keller

Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan, “is remembered as ‘the Miracle Worker’ 
for her lifetime dedication, patience and love to a half-wild southern child trapped in 
a world of darkness and silence.” *

Helen Keller, with her life’s story and her faith, point US to THE Miracle Worker: JESUS CHRIST, who through our obedient faith rescues US from the dominion of DARKNESS  and brings us into His kingdom of LIGHT and LIFE (Col 1:13).

THE Miracle Worker will rescue THOSE who: believe in Him (Acts 16:30-31), 
turn from their sins in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess Him before men 
(Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) in His name for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38; 22:16).  He will CONTINUE to cleanse those who CONTINUE to walk 
in the "LIGHT" of His Word (1 John 1:7).

Thank you, Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller, for pointing US to THE Miracle Worker who can restore our SIGHT and our SOUL!

Can YOU see Him?  Can YOU hear Him?  Will YOU follow Him?

-- David A. Sargent / M. Eddlemon

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

* From the website of the Helen Keller Birthplace Foundation -- http://www.helenkellerbirthplace.org/about_helen/about_helen.html

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