Sometimes we are too paralyzed and blinded by our sins to even make a move in the direction of salvation. Without eyes to see, ears to hear and feet to walk it is difficult to find our way and get to the place of healing. But like the  the paralytic whose friends lowered him to Jesus, the servant of the centurion and the children of the parents who came to Jesus seeking healing and deliverance on behalf of their children, the love and prayers for others can bring the love of Christ and the desire for healing into the lives of those who are too deadened by sin to even have the desire to seek God.  Through the Love and grace of God and intercession, even our blindness to our blindness, our deadness to our deadness, even our lack of character and desire can be healed!

 
This story is fascinating in its demonstration of the interplay between God and man in the process of salvation:  To receive full healing the blind man had to obey Jesus and go wash in the pool of Siloam.  But before he could make his way to the pool, he had to be given partial sight by the Lord.  In order to receive even this partial sight he had to seek out the Lord and ask for healing.  Yet he likely would not have sought the Lord had he not been blind. (Of those who sought the Lord, whether physically well or infirm, all seem to recognize that they are in need of healing–only those who recognize the illness of their soul seek out the Physician.) But we are told that this man's blindness did not come to him as a result of anything he or his parents had done but that he was born this way so that God would be glorified in his healing—and He was. 
 
God allows blindness, man seeks His healing, God initiates the process of healing, man participates in this process and is healed, God is glorified….Alpha and Omega, the process of salvation begins and ends with God, the author and finisher of our faith!