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“As He [the Lord Jesus] went out of Jericho…blind Bartimaeus…sat by the highway side begging…And he came…to Jesus. And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto Him, Lord, that I might receive my sight” (Mark 10:46,50-51).
We might wonder why the Lord Jesus asked Bartimaeus, “What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?” Surely the Lord Jesus knew very well that when a blind man called out loudly to Him, he wanted the Lord to give him his sight. That is true, for the Lord Jesus knew that this blind man was calling to Him so that he might be able to see. In the same way, the Lord Jesus knows what we want even before we pray to Him. Why then did the Lord ask this question?
It was because the Lord wanted to hear from his own mouth what he wanted. He wants to hear our voices too, in the same way that parents want to hear the voices of their children asking for things they want. The Lord Jesus is the same today. He wants to hear our voices in prayer, even though He knows ahead of time what we need. The Lord Jesus Himself had said, “Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him” (Matthew 6:8).
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