Cry Louder

What does it mean to Cry Louder for Jesus? Mark 10:46-52 takes us into Bartimaeus’ encounter with Jesus as he cried out so loudly for Him. It wouldn’t be the first time Jesus had His Name called out in a crowd. He often moved through towns, villages and regions with hundreds if not thousands of people following behind Him. Many calling out to Him, trying to grab His clothes, jostling to get a better view of Him, climbing through windows and roofs to see Him and even climbing trees to get a birds-eye view of Him. But in each of those instances, Jesus often responded to individual cries, touches, climbers and those of few words by recognizing their voices, their touches, their effort and their words of faith because they spoke more loudly and pulled so strongly on His Spirit.  This was one of those times where the very cry itself rang so loudly in Jesus’ Spirit that He could not ignore this loud request.