What do you choose: Mercy or Money?

Today as Jesus is approaching Jericho, a man who was blind and begging by the roadside heard about Him. The blind man, whom St Mark calls “Bartimeaus” (Marc 10:46-52) cried out: “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me”. From this cry, we understand that Bertimaeus who had heard about Jesus and had decided to put his faith in him not only as “Man of Nazareth” but as the Son of David, which means, The Messiah, The Saviour and the Redeemer. He did not ask for money but mercy. Whenever we show faith, God shows his mercy. Whenever we show faith, God stops at our door and he asks this beautiful question: what do you want me to do for you? Our physical blindness is never a barrier to reach out to God and to one another. But our spiritual blindness is indeed the grave sin Jesus came to set us free from. “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains” (John 9:41). Bartimaeus represents every human being on the roadside of the world, begging for God’s mercy in order to be set free from our spiritual blindness. Jesus is asking you the same question today: “What do you want me to do for you?”

Lord, I’m blind. Let me receive my sight; that I may see you in everything; that I may see as you see. Amen.

Fr. Georges Roger BIDZOGO sac