Good morning! I find it amazing that those the people called blind often saw more clearly than many others. In Mark, we read about yet another blind beggar who called out to Jesus. This one asks an interesting favor of Jesus. The man asked that Jesus show mercy to him. In our daily prayers in this difficult life, how often do we stop to ask our Lord to have mercy on us? There are a great many needs and requests for healing in our prayers, but we may want to simply ask for mercy. Jesus had compassion on that blind man and healed his earthly sight. However, that supposedly blind man had already seen what many with normal vision refused to see. "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me." In naming Jesus, "Son of David", the blind man acknowledged our Lord as the Messiah. In those times, that phrase had a powerful meaning to the Judeans. They looked for the Son of David to save them from Roman occupation, when in truth the Son of David was already among them and working to save them from the occupation of Satan. We know that Jesus paid the full ransom for us, saving those who will believe in the Son of God. However, in the time that Jesus walked the Earth, many could not or would not see the Messiah for who he was in their own time. The prophecies are more clear for us who live after Jesus' first coming and anticipate the second. We have much less excuse for missing the Good News.
Lord, have mercy on us,
Bucky
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