Reading today’s Gospel Reading, we should desire with all our heart that the blindness of our eyes, the deafness in our ears and the coldness of our heart go away. Just as Jesus blessed this deaf person, we need to ask God that our senses be restored fully, also.

The First Reading is interesting in this regard. Jeroboam was a worker for King Solomon, and in today’s reading we find God through the Prophet Ahijah approaching Him, so that he may learn God’s ways, because he was to be King of the North Ten Tribes of Israel, in the future. (This approaching is like when God approached Jacob, The Stairway to Heaven Dream) even though Jacob did not know Him. Eventually Jacob and God built a healthy relationship). But Jeroboam resorted to Egypt and the Egyptian ways of his mother. In the end, Jeroboam I was directly responsible for the destruction of Israel, because in his insecurity and not-knowing of Yahweh, he lead Israel down the path of idolatry and wickedness.

The same holds for us if we should reject God and His goodness, because we are lacking in the wisdom required to go through life. There is no middle way, and we will discover this in the next few readings from the book of Kings.