My dad used to say, “A closed mouth doesn’t get fed.” I didn’t understand that until I became an adult. The truth is we can have a need, but until we communicate our need, no one will meet our need.
Throughout the Bible, we read stories of people who had needs, yet until they communicated, their needs were unmet by God.
In Matthew 20, we read the story of Jesus’ departure from Jericho. A great multitude followed Him. Among that crowd were two blind men. These men wanted their sight. They understood that this could only happen if they got Jesus’ attention. They shouted to Him, but the multitude warned them that they should be quiet! They tried to silence their shout!
These men’s desire for sight was greater than their desire to please people. They did not allow the crowd to silence their shout, “so they shouted out the more.” As a result, Jesus stood still, called them, and said, “What do you want me to do?” They said to Him, “That our eyes may be opened.”
So far, we see two blind men who shouted to grab Jesus’s attention because they wanted their sight. The crowd tried to silence them, yet they refused and cried all the more. As a result, the story ends: “So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes, and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.”
This story serves as a reminder that we need to communicate our needs to have them met and when to not allow anyone to silence us!
You can’t silence my shout!
As Gilbert Thinketh 