Annoyingly Persistent Prayer and the Compassion of Christ

In Matthew 20:29-34, Jesus and his group are on the move, and two blind men are bothering everyone with their calling out to Jesus. The crowd tells them to be quiet, but they disobey, and keep calling out to Jesus. Jesus’ attention is captured and he yells back to them, not to finally shut them up, but to give them permission to approach. When they tell him they hope for sight, it says he had compassion and touched their eyes and healed them. So are you a yeller or a shusher? How badly do you want Jesus’ compassion? How annoying are you willing to get to receive his touch? Or do you care more about people’s opinions than an opportunity to be near Jesus? Today we are encouraged to pray until we pray and receive Christ’s healing.