Exodus 13:1-14:4; Psalms 47:1-48:14; Acts 7:1-29
To open blind eyes…look, ye blind, that ye may see. Is. 42:7, 18
Fanny J. Crosby became physically blind at the age of six weeks due to a mistake by an unqualified “doctor”. She lived to be 95 and never seemed to show any bitterness. She clearly had a repose in Christ and her spiritual eyes were open and she saw eternal glories. Sometimes in her hymns she seems to almost forget that she was blind, as she wrote, “Visions of rapture burst on my sight” and “Lo a spring of joy I see” and again “Watching and waiting, looking above”. She wrote with delight in her Saviour and at the age of eight she wrote the poem below. —Paul Young
Oh, what a happy soul am I, although I cannot see!
I am resolved that in this world contented I will be.
How many blessings I enjoy, that other people don’t.
To weep and sigh because I’m blind, I cannot—and I won’t.—F. Crosby