The Gospel passage (MK 10: 46-52) is a story of Jesus restoring the sight to the blind man Bartimaeus. His knowledge and power are infinitely beyond ours. This miracle has always fascinated me. How frequently we speak about sight impairments/injuries, eye diseases, stigmatisms, cataracts and 20/20 vision! (20/20 vision is considered “normal” vision, meaning you should be able to read a letter at 20 feet).
As Jesus, His disciples, and a crowd were leaving Jericho. They encountered a blind beggar, Bartimaeus, sitting by the roadside. The buzz from the crowd told Bartimaeus that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. He began to cry out, “Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me.”
Bartimaeus is an example of what our faith and trust in Jesus has to be. He has been persistent and is not put off by the abuse of the crowd telling him to keep quiet. But he was shouting and waving all the more – “Son of David, have pity on me.” This attracts the attention of Jesus. Then, Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?”
His only prayer was, “Lord, I want to see.” With that desire and with the healing of Jesus, a whole new world opens up and he is ushered into the light of the day. Bartimaeus’ faith has healed him and immediately he received his sight and threw his blanket rather his security and he started to follow Him up the road.
We all have eyes to look but do not see what is important in life? And at times we all fail to experience or to see the hand of God at work in our lives. God’s gift of life to our response is: “The Lord has done great things for me, and we are filled with joy,” (Ps 126:3).
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