Let it be done for you according to your faith

7 DECEMBER (Mt 9,27-31)

In the Old Testament healings of the blind are not told. However, there is the spiritual healing of the servant of Elisha. There is also the blindness caused by the prophet. Let us listen to the story and then we will understand everything. These events are a true sign of what would have happened one day with the Lord’s Messiah.

When the king of Aram was waging war on Israel, he would make plans with his servants to attack a particular place. But the man of God would send word to the king of Israel, “Be careful! Do not pass by this place, for Aram will attack there.” So the king of Israel would send word to the place which the man of God had indicated, and alert it; then they would be on guard. This happened several times. Greatly disturbed over this, the king of Aram called together his officers. “Will you not tell me,” he asked them, “who among us is for the king of Israel?” “No one, my lord king,” answered one of the officers. “The Israelite prophet Elisha can tell the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.” “Go, find out where he is,” he said, “so that I may take him captive.” Informed that Elisha was in Dothan, he sent there a strong force with horses and chariots. They arrived by night and surrounded the city. Early the next morning, when the attendant of the man of God arose and went out, he saw the force with its horses and chariots surrounding the city. “Alas!” he said to Elisha. “What shall we do, my lord?” “Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered. “Our side outnumbers theirs.” Then he prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes, that he may see.” And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, so that he saw the mountainside filled with horses and fiery chariots around Elisha. When the Arameans came down to get him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Strike this people blind, I pray you.” And in answer to the prophet’s prayer the Lord struck them blind. Then Elisha said to them: “This is the wrong road, and this is the wrong city. Follow me! I will take you to the man you want.” And he led them to Samaria. When they entered Samaria, Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open their eyes that they may see.” The Lord opened their eyes, and they saw that they were inside Samaria. (2Re 6,8-20).

With Jesus, the miracle of the gift of sight is a sign of the other sight: that of the spirit, which sees God and his eternal and divine truth. It also sees the truth of the personal heart, soul, body, will and desires. It sees the truth of history and eternity. After Christ has spoken, all those who do not accept his word, if, in some way, they first could be said to be sighted; now, they are declared blind by Jesus. They are not in the truth, because they refused to follow his light.

The man answered and said to them, “This is what is so amazing, that you do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if one is devout and does his will, he listens to him. It is unheard of that anyone ever opened the eyes of a person born blind. If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything.” They answered and said to him, “You were born totally in sin, and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out. When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, he found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered and said, “Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him and the one speaking with you is he.” He said, “I do believe, Lord,” and he worshiped him. Then Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might become blind.” Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not also blind, are we?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you are saying, ‘We see,’ so your sin remains”. (Jn 9,24-41).

The light of the body is a sign of the light of the soul, of the spirit and of the mind. Jesus comes to be the true light that enlightens every man. He is the eternal, divine and universal Light, the embodied Light, the Light that never sets, never fails and never ages. All the lights of men grow old and die, the light of Jesus remains forever.

And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed (him), crying out, “Son of David, have pity on us!” When he entered the house, the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I can do this?” “Yes, Lord,” they said to him. Then he touched their eyes and said, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.” And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” But they went out and spread word of him through all that land.

Jesus becomes our Light through faith in the Word. The Gospel is the true light.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints give us Christ our true light.