SUNDAY- 30^th  WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME –B

Gospel: Mark 10:46-52: Master, let me see again.

I Reading: Jeremiah 31:7-9: I will comfort the blind and the lame as I lead them back.

II Reading: Hebrews 5:1-6: You are a priest of the order of Melchizedek, and forever.

The Steps for Getting Help: Blind Bartimaeus, Mk 10:46-52

We must have the great hope and faith in Jesus who can only save us and heal us completely; thus we need to approach Jesus with a desperate need accepting our own weakness, wretchedness, powerlessness and sinful life. Then only we can be healed physically, mentally, psychologically and spiritually. We can see not only the physical world but Jesus, the Saviour of the world and experience the eternal life on this earth as in heaven.

Jesus helped the blind man who was desperately in need. The need may be physical, mental, emotional or spiritual; it may be some problem with the mind, some desperate loneliness.

This passage spells out the steps for getting help.

1. Jesus in Jericho (v.46)

a. the disciples and the crowd

b. a blind man sat begging

2. Step 1: Believing the reports about Jesus (v.47)

3. Step 2: Acknowledging personal need (v.47)

4. Step 3: Persisting, persevering after Jesus (v.48)

5. Step 4: Eagerly expecting to receive Jesus’ help (v.49-50)

a. Jesus stopped and then he called to the man

b. The man threw aside the impeding cloak

6. Step 5: Requesting precisely what is needed (51-52)

7. Step 6: Following Jesus (v.52)

Thought: A person must go where he/she knows Jesus is, where Jesus “passes by”. A person must go where he/she can hear Jesus, or he/she may miss the chance of eternal life.

Bartimaeus believed on the reports and testimony about Jesus. Perseverance is the answer to desperate need-persevering prayer and persevering faith (Mt 7:7; Lk 11:5-10).

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