20 February 2019
‘PEOPLE LOOK LIKE TREES’. (Mark 8:22-26)
The religions of Asia call it ‘awakening’ or ‘enlightenment’. It
is a state of awareness beyond the normal level on which we live. It is a breakthrough into seeing things as
they really are, seeing reality as God sees it.
Mark describes the only time Jesus ‘fails’ to work a miracle. They bring a blind man to him and Jesus goes
through a process of healing. But at the
end the man does not see clearly. People look like trees though they are
walking about. So Jesus lays his hand on
him again and this time he sees everything clearly. Mark’s purpose is to show that ‘seeing’ takes
time. The work of God in us does not
happen immediately. We are to return again and again to the task of awakening.
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