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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:
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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