Exodus 10:21-23 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt… "God couldn't arrange it more beautiful," said a poor old blind man, as he sat in the chimney-corner of his cottage. "Arrange what?" said the visitor. "Why, I'm as blind as a mole, but I can hear well; and my old woman there," pointing to his wife in the other corner, "is as deaf as a post, but she can see well, Could God Almighty a' done it better?" This blind, bright saint could certainly see beauty in God's arrangements where it never would have been suspected by onlookers. It need hardly be said that sightless J. revels in the light where mere sight-seers would grumble at the darkness. His natural blindness seems to have given a quick, keen perception of his spiritual sight. "No walls around me now," he says; "I'm never hemmed in. It's all brightness. Bless'e, I'd ten times sooner be as I be, than have my sight, and not see my Saviour!" He is — speaking after the manner of men — at poverty's door, yet he has luxurious faith; and, in truth, his bare home is hard by the jewelled walls of the pearly-gated city. Listen to his thankful, contented talk: "They allows the old woman and me two shillings and ninepence, and two loaves, and we can manage on that; and what more do we want?" (Sword and Trowel.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. |
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