Some of the people who witnessed Jesus driving out the demon from the mute man were utterly wrong about Jesus, declaring that He healed through Satan’s power. Instead of acknowledging that God was powerfully at work in Jesus, they proclaimed that Satan was at work in His life. It’s hard to imagine a more significant error than that. They were calling good evil.
In response to their severe misjudgment, Jesus professed that He did his healing work through the power of God. God was at work in Jesus, and some of His contemporaries couldn’t see it. We can all be blind to the working of God among us, especially when God is working through those with whom we don’t always agree.
Indeed, there are many ways in which we are graced, in some way, by God, and we hardly notice it. The LORD blesses us and, rather than recognizing the blessing and giving thanks for it, we focus on what we do not have or what is wrong in our lives.
We must pray for the gift to see as Jesus sees, which is the opposite of how people in the Gospel saw. Jesus saw the working of God in Creation, in the sower, the vineyard, in the flowers of the field, and birds of the air. He saw God’s presence in those many people had written off because of their imperfections and faults. Jesus teaches us to see with eyes of generosity, hope, and mercy. When we see with those kinds of eyes, then, in the words of St. Paul, we will be inspired to give thanks in all circumstances.+
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