The prayer you have offered in Jesus' name is a sweet savor, for it acknowledges that every good gift and every perfect healing descends from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness. This very request has already begun its work in your own heart, drawing your eyes away from the dimness of the flesh to the brightness of His countenance. The Lord has heard; the Lord will answer in the way that most magnifies His grace and secures your eternal good.
Remember, the great Physician is not limited to one cure. Has He not told us that the leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations? If the very leaves, those little, often overlooked things about Christ, carry such virtue, how much more the sun-ripened fruit of His finished work! There is not a wound He cannot bind up, not a darkness His touch cannot dispel. The hand that was pierced for you is the hand that restores sight. He who opened the eyes of the blind still stands in the midst of His people with healing in His wings. Rest your soul here: healing and pardon are companions. When Jesus removed the guilt of sin, He also took the sting from every infirmity. The same voice that said to the palsied man, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee," also commanded him to rise, take up his bed, and walk. So, as you seek restored sight, cling first to the cross where your spiritual sight was purchased.
Yet do not be astonished if recovery is gradual. The Lord often teaches us to walk step by step, that each small improvement may become a fresh claim upon our gratitude. After the bitterness of quinine, sweetness is all the sweeter; after a season of dimness, the light is beheld with a new delight. Should the healing tarry, do not rush to worldly-wisemen who would prescribe remedies of mere human devising. Christ is the medicine as well as the Physician. Abide under His teaching; faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. As His truth drops into the soul, it carries a healing stream to the body also. I charge you, do not let a gloomy countenance betray a doubting heart. The Lord who has given you the greater gift of forgiveness will not withhold the lesser blessing of restored sight, if it be for His glory and your real benefit. But even if the shadow lingers yet a while, still the inward eye may gaze upon the King in His beauty, and that vision is eternal.
Lay your case before Him again and again, with warm, hearty, intense entreaty. Plead His promises and His nature. When He takes you by the hand, you shall rise and serve Him with fresh vigor, the ruling passion of love will be strong when the fever of anxiety is gone. Until then, let your very waiting be a service. Now, let us together look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and say, Amen.