To open or not to open...
Friday, 5th week in Ordinary time
Gen 3: 1-8; Mk 7:31-37
If you eat of this fruit your eyes will be opened, said the Satan and they ate... their eyes were open and they lost the paradise! The Satan deceived the couple to believe that they were blind and ignorant and were nothing, telling them they were yet to become like God while they actually bore the image of God. After they ate the fruit they realised their folly, because they were not blind, they just had to open their eyes to the fact.
Jesus orders 'be opened'...and the ear opens and the tongue gets loosened. Now the confusion is... which of these opening takes me closer to God?
To be open or not to be open... that is plainly the concern. Be open to all the words and signs from the Lord; be open to the reality around; be open enough to observe the folly that goes around so that you are not deceived yourself.
Let the Word open our eyes and our hearts!