What Jesus Asks: “What Do You Want Me to Do for You?”

The author begins with the account of two blind men beside the road to Jericho. As Jesus passes through a crowd, they call out for mercy, and He stops to ask them what they want Him to do for them. They answer that they want to see, and He restores their sight. Reading this passage, the author found that Jesus’s question seemed to be addressed to her own life as well.

She describes how, when she faces a problem she cannot fix or a challenge beyond her strength, she has come to imagine Jesus asking her the same question. Her practice is to stop what she is doing and tell Him what she wants Him to do. She shares a recent example: a friend, Dorothy, wrote that her team was leaving for Bolivia the next day, but one member’s plane ticket had gone missing. The author replied with a short prayer asking Jesus to help find the ticket, and about thirty minutes later Dorothy wrote back that it had been found.

The post closes by suggesting that Jesus asks this same question of every reader, today and every day, and invites each person to consider how they would answer. The author ends with a brief prayer thanking Jesus for caring about our needs and wants, for inviting us to name them, and for solving our problems.

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