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The answer of the blind man is an interesting one. “What do you want me to do for you?” “Lord, I want to see.” And it’s interesting because that verb, “to see,” can mean many things.
What do you want me to do for you?
The answer of the blind man is an interesting one. “What do you want me to do for you?” “Lord, I want to see.” And it’s interesting because that verb, “to see,” can mean many things.
It certainly can mean what happened in the Gospel today that his sight was restored. And how miraculous and amazing that must have been for him to have his sight restored. But we also use that word to indicate understanding. When somebody says something to us, we say, “Oh, yeah, I see,” meaning I understand it. I can see it as it is, even if it isn’t a physical object.
And that really, I think, underscores what it means to be citizens of the kingdom of God. That because of our faith in Jesus, we see differently now. The world is not what it used to be. We see the things of the kingdom.
But St. Peter in the first reading reminds us we have to be careful because there are elements of things that we can see that wage war in our souls. The world is a troubled place. We can see the complexities and difficulties in so many ways of the issues that we face. Our inability to talk civilly with everyone else. Our lack of understanding for the values that others may hold.
But it’s also a statement to remind us how important it is to surrender to Jesus, to recognize that it is his will we seek to do, not our own. Left to ourselves, we can find ourselves doing what Jesus does not want us to do. We can even sin, rejecting God deliberately and on purpose. If Jesus were to come to you today and ask you the question, “What would you want me to do for you?” What answer might you give him?
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