Blindness of the Heart!

Friday, October 24, 2025

Rom 7:18-25a; Lk 12:54-59

Today’s Gospel highlights the spiritual blindness of God’s people who sin by refusing to believe in Jesus. 

Jesus talks of their blindness in comparison to their skill at reading the signs of nature. Those who could look at the clouds and predict rain and feel the wind and foresee heat failed miserably to identify the Son of God, the Messiah living among them. 

Myopia, also known as nearsightedness and shortsightedness, refers to an eye condition in which distant objects appear blurry while close objects appear normal.

But in the case of God’s people, the reverse was true. As Jesus even exclaims, they were good at reading the distant signs of nature while lacking the ability to discern the signs of God’s presence and will in Jesus, who ‘pitched his tent among’ them (Jn 1:14).

Making use of the example of God’s people who ignored him, Jesus helps us understand that spiritual blindness does not refer to blindness of the eyes but of the heart. Their hearts were so closed that the truth of Jesus could not find a way to squeeze in.

Sometimes we make the same mistake. Often enough, we stay sharp and smart regarding world affairs. But when it comes to reading God’s will for us, we often fail. The failure continues when we fail to pick up the signs of God’s nearness and His presence among our neighbors too.

If our spiritual blindness is one thing, reading the signs and not missing their meaning is another. For this reason, every day is a day of discernment for a Christian to inherit the divine perspective.

Only when we are able to see through the eyes of God can we discover the nobility of our vocation.

Let us pray that our spiritual vision might improve to be able to read the signs of God’s nearness and presence among us. 

Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar