Reflection for February 19 Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time: Mark 8:22-26

Gospel: Mark 8:22-26

When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on the man and asked, “Do you see anything?” 

Looking up the man replied, “I see people looking like trees and walking.” Then he laid hands on the man’s eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly. Then he sent him home and said, “Do not even go into the village.”

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Reflection:

Have You Led Someone to Jesus? 

When Jesus and His party arrived at Bethsaida, people led a blind man to Him and asked Jesus to cure him. Who were these people who guided the blind man to Jesus? We don’t know who they were. But even if we don’t know them, we know that they believed in Jesus. We also know that they lived their faith; otherwise, they would not have escorted the blind man to Jesus. 

Do you believe in Jesus, and are you living your faith? It’s quite easy to say that we believe in the Lord, but have we led someone closer to Him? Believing in the Lord is not enough—we also have to live our belief in Him. What is the use of saying we believe if we don’t live out our belief? Therefore, we must live this faith by guiding our fellowmen closer to the Lord. 

Jesus wants us to know that there are many more blind men and women out there who badly need to be led to Him. Let us look around our environment, and we will find them. Let us make friends with them by living our faith, and let us share the life-changing words of Jesus with them—because our faith bears more fruit when we lead others closer to Him. 

Have you already led someone closer to Jesus? — Marino J. Dasmarinas