Imagine the unimaginable. Did the man born blind feel
compelled to pinch himself to make sure he wasn’t dreaming when the one thing
he wanted most in his life, happened. Born into darkness, he encounters the
Light of the World when he washed the mud away from his eyes in the pool of
Siloam. The light of Jesus pierced the darkness of this man’s world and opened
up to his eyes for the first time the wonder of not just sight, but insight. Without
knowing Jesus, much less seeing him, the man born blind knows who Jesus is. What
the man did not expect to encounter was the darkness that filled the hearts of
the Pharisees.
In Ezechial 36, God tells the Jewish people that their eyes will
behold the holiness of God. God continues, “I will give you a new heart, and a
new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your
flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit
within you so that you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep
them.” The eyes of the Pharisees saw the miracles Jesus worked, yet the
darkness induced by their hearts of stone, prevented them from knowing him. If
our hearts have been petrified into stone by life, we have the opportunity to
have our hearts transformed and penetrated by the light of Jesus this Lent,
opening our eyes to see the wonders of the risen Lord at Easter.
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