As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd,
Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus,
sat by the roadside begging.
On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth,
he began to cry out and say,
“Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.”
And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent.
But he kept calling out all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me.”
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
So they called the blind man, saying to him,
“Take courage; get up, Jesus is calling you.”
He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
Jesus said to him in reply, “What do you want me to do for you?”
The blind man replied to him, “Master, I want to see.”
Jesus told him, ‘Go your way; your faith has saved you.”
Immediately he received his sight
and followed him on the way.
Mark 10:46-52
If I were called before the Lord and he ask me what I wanted him to do for me, I, like Bartimaeus, would ask him to allow me to see. My vision of worldly things is fine. It is my vision of things spirtual and of the heart that I would bring to him for healing. As Paul says, in the present day we can only see things dimly as if in mirror. When I look at my brothers and sisters I seldom think to look beyond what I see on the surface so I miss the chance to experience their true measure. I would ask him to heal me of tendancy to look away when I should be looking straight ahead. I would ask to see perfectly those things are of him, from him and for him. I would ask to be able recognize and rejoice for those things he has bestowed on me, not because I deserve them but because of his grace. I would ask that, like Bartimaeus, I would be save by my faith.
