Feb 19 - Clarity
- Gary Fritsch
- Feb 19
- 2 min read
I don't know about you, but I have to reach a certain point before an idea transforms into action. Sometimes, I really love the concept of doing something and it can feel a little far off or a little out of focus, but I am still enamored by it.
I was thinking of this with today's reading, and the healing that left a man with a version of eyesight that was a little fuzzy, a version that lacked enough focus to allow him to really act upon it. I think that many people know this feeling and it is a feeling that we might call clarity. I think that many people have this feeling about God, or maybe even more specifically about Jesus. They like the idea of Jesus. They like the idea of being a good person, maybe they even like the idea of following Jesus, but they can't quite see themselves doing it - they lack clarity.
Clarity is what gives us confidence and drive and certitude. I think that we mostly want clarity about what Jesus wants us to do. What will we look like doing it, how will we make it happen. I think that Jesus only needs us to have clarity about one thing - Him. Come to know with all of your heart that He died for you. Not for all of us (although He did), but for you specifically. Come to know with all of your being that He knows you intimately - and loves you anyway. Like no other person in your life ever could. And lastly, come to grips with tremendous clarity that you are in need of healing, and His mercy is greater than any sin that you might have tucked away 'out of sight'.
The blind man in today's Gospel first realized that his eyes were working, but he didn't know what seeing was. Let Jesus heal you as many times as necessary for you to have clarity about who He really is.
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