I want to see(2)

"What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him. The blind man said, "Rabbi, I want to see." (Mark 10:51)

Imagine the psychological status of Bartimaeus who says “I want to see.” Did he know the meaning of ‘seeing’ something? Occasionally certain social leaders demonstrate the pathetic status of a blind man by walking with the help of a stick and with their eyes covered so as to learn the difficulties of a blind man. Such event has a meaning in drawing the attention of the society thereby arousing the concern for the physically handicapped people.

The people with impediment in sight experience things by the sense of feeling, hearing and smelling. There is no light in their world. They cannot experience and enjoy the sight of color and its form of the world that is made through a combination of light. They might be aware of it indirectly but they do not know it practically. A real realization is possible only through practical experience.

Jesus once told to the Pharisees and the Scribes saying, “I am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you do what you have heard from your father." (John 8:38) The thing the Pharisees heard was the Law of Moses. They heard many sounds that nobody in this world would compete with them but they could not see the source of the sound. They thought and tried to visualize with whatever they heard but they did not directly see the world of truth. Jesus told he had seen the Father’s presence. The word ‘seen’ signifies his identification with God.

How about us today? If we merely hear about Christianity as a piece of information, we are still far from real faith. If not then we are the people who are identified with faith. Others may find it difficult to identify which part we belong to and we can live secretly by hiding ourselves. However, we are aware of our own reality.