“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road. Mark 10:52
“The blind man replies immediately. Lord that I may see. He does not ask the Lord for gold, but for sight. He has little use for anything except to be able to see, because although a blind man can have many other things, without his sight, he cannot see what he has got. Let us imitate, therefore, what we have just heard.”
Gregory the Great in Homilies on the Gospels 2.7.
Gregory makes an interesting point. What does sight give us? The ability to see what we have. This positions us to respond to the “go’ command from Jesus. We see. We discern direction. Then we act, we move, we go.
I have arrived safely at home. And I pray for sight for me and each person that participated in the GTP Global Gathering this past week and I pray this for all readers of Daily Meditations.
Imagine what Bartimaeus got when His prayer was answered. He saw God incarnate standing right in front of him. This is precisely what happens when Jesus gives us sight.
To think we need gold to make things happen is to walk in blindness. To realize what we have – we have God with us – and whatever He has given us, we can go and do whatever He asks of us.
I pray for you and me to have sight today.