“YOU HAVE SEEN HIM, THE ONE SPEAKING WITH YOU IS HE.” JN 9:1-41
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Jesus reveals Himself last weekend to the Samaritan woman and this week to the blind man. He is not just revealing Himself to the people in these Gospels, but to us today. We have a sinful past and we are blind.
“Not as man sees does God see,
because man sees the appearance
but the LORD looks into the heart.” 1 Sam 16:6-7
Jesus reveals Himself as the Light of the world. The blind man has been living in darkness, but with light we can see things. There is no such thing as darkness, only an absence of light. We choose to let Christ’s light into our hearts each day and live with Him or be selfish and choose our own path. He died with arms open and head bent to kiss us welcoming us to His love and forgiveness every day. His side gushes forth with an ocean of mercy.
It’s interesting how we like to stay in the darkness like the people of today’s Gospel. Even when we can see very clearly that Jesus is the Light, we choose to stay in our sin, we choose to be selfish. Why? Jesus asks us to do something that is very hard. Change. If we want to follow Christ, “we must deny ourselves, pick up our crosses and follow Him”. We must worship “God or mammon”, we cannot love God and material things. The rich young man went away sad because He had many material possessions.
Since light makes everything clear, if we bring ourselves to Jesus at the beginning of each day, He makes things clear for us. He helps us set our priorities. It is easy to get distracted, we need the Light, Jesus, to give us clarity. The world or culture we live in glorifies sex, physical beauty, violence, being in a specific group, music that glorifies these things, wealth, and popularity. As a young person, this makes things look blurry as you are trying to figure out your identity.
Jesus teaches us that the marital act is the most sacred act between two people who have made a commitment to one another in front of God in His Church in a sacrament with vows which create two souls becoming one working to bringing forth new life and teaching kids to love God. True love is a decision based on knowledge, a self-gift, permanent, and life-giving. This is Jesus on the cross.
We get so caught up in physical beauty and the sad thing is everything is photoshopped today. Young women are starving themselves to look like an image that is fake. Why cover up your natural beauty with make up? We begin to cover up who we are at a very young age because we are trying to be like someone else.
Our video games are violent war games. Young people watch so much violence today, they become numb to the fact that there are husbands, wives, daughters, sons, aunts, uncles, and cousins coming home in caskets with American flags draped over them. Americans have made it into a video game. This is sad. Don’t get me wrong, I have played my fair share of video games, violent ones too, but we are forgetting to recognize our soldiers and veterans.
Video games and electronics have become time vampires spending hours and hours on these devices. This leads to short attention spans, wanting everything to entertain us or it’s boring (including the Mass-the Mass is an encounter with the living God, doesn’t get more entertaining than that, actually it’s way better than entertainment it is complete fulfillment and joy), poor grades, and lazy people who don’t want to work. The music we listen to and like has a good beat, but the words objectify woman, put woman down, glorify the marital act outside of marriage, cuss, glorify money, popularity, put others down, and glorify drugs and alcohol. Why would a person who wants to get to heaven be listening to this darkness?
When we pay for this, it supports this person and their music. I have dabbled in each one of these myself in my youth, but I challenge others not to be like me. Jesus is calling you to be better. Today, He is helping us to see things clearly. If we come to Him, read about Him in the Scriptures, and dedicate ourselves to being more available to others, helping others, spending less time with our screens and more time in prayer, He will take away the blurriness and make things clear. Isn’t this what every person who is wondering who they are, what is my purpose, where am I going, why do I look like this, what is the marital act, our bodies, and especially our souls about.
Come to Jesus for clarity, there are daily situations that make us unsure as young people and adults. God created us and knows us better than we know ourselves, He wants us to know His will and wants us to see clearly with the Light of the world whom He sent to die for us, Jesus. Invite Jesus into your morning with prayer so you can see clearly throughout the day. Invite Him into every situation throughout the day. Invite Mary into your day, ask for her intercession in your daily rosary (this defeats the Devil every time and makes things clear). Invite the Holy Spirit into your life to guide you with wisdom, knowledge, fortitude, piety, fear of the Lord, understanding, and counsel.
Today, Jesus invites you and me to be with Him in the Light and to stop living in the darkness of our sins. Lent is a time to come to the Light and rid the darkness from our lives preparing ourselves for the eternal Light, heaven.
Today’s challenge: Rise each morning asking Jesus to help you see clearly. Listen to the Light and stop listening to the darkness of our culture caught up in our electronic devices. There is so much more happiness and clarity in the Scriptures and with people God has put around you to teach you about the Light. Jesus invites you today to come to the Light!!!! Be not afraid, ask God for his grace, and allow yourself to be transformed.
Read article on Near Death Experiences of the Blind, possible proof of an after life, https://magiscenter.com/dr-kenneth-rings-studies-of-the-blind/
Be a servant, be a saint today!
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