Sunday October 28, 2018 - The Healing of Bartimaeus, Mark 10:46-52

The story of the healing of Bartimaeus is one that I've now preached over three times since starting this blog... that's hard to believe!  It's a great story though and one with which we all should be able to relate, not in that we are all physically blind, but rather, that at some time or another (or many, many, many times) we are all at least a bit spiritually blind.

We are spiritually blind just like James and John are in the story immediately preceding this story of healing.  Bartimaeus is in fact spiritually more capable of vision than the sighted are in this story.  He for the first time of anyone in Mark's Gospel sees Jesus as the 'Son of David', the Messiah, the Christ.

All of us are as I said at times in our lives 'spiritually blind', often though... it's a willful blindness... "there is none so blind as those that would not see".  We don't always want to see where and when God calls us because... it's often not a fun thing that He's calling us to do.  We don't want to see because we don't want to go...

When we see our brother and sister in need of comfort and support... let us be attentive for God's inclining for us to intervene.

Be a blessing to someone today!

In Christ alone,Roy

Mark 10:46-52 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus
46 They came to Jericho. As he and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. 47 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 48 Many sternly ordered him to be quiet, but he cried out even more loudly, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 49 Jesus stood still and said, “Call him here.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; get up, he is calling you.” 50 So throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. 51 Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher,[a] let me see again.” 52 Jesus said to him, “Go; your faith has made you well.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way.

Footnotes:
a) Mark 10:51 Aramaic Rabbouni