Daily Inspiration

“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.”  -Mark 8:22-26
 
Once again, we see Jesus leading someone who suffers away from the bustle of the world. Christ wishes to pull us from the murk of the city to free us from the spiritual blindness caused by living in the village. 
 
Living in a fallen society surrounded by the deviance of sin, we may easily be blinded and desensitized to the lethal effect of sin. To be saved from that blindness, we must first grasp Christ’s outreached hand and follow Him away from the source of sin. 
 
Jesus commands, ‘Do not go into the village,’ because even after we ask Jesus to remove the blinding scale from our souls, opening our eyes so that we may see clearly, the village will still beckon us back. Christ gives the same command each time He frees us in the confessional; He warns us to keep away from the temptations of the village when He says ‘Go and sin no more.’’
 
Blessed Alvarez of Cordova, pray for us.
 
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Jesus, I trust in you.