Tuesday, 19 February 2019

PEOPLE LOOK LIKE TREES


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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