Emphasis Preaching Journal
Seeing and not seeing
Commentary
Job and blind Bartimaeus share some things in common. Both are social casualties and the reigning orthodoxy would diagnose their situations as caused by Divine retribution triggered by some inner personal or familial flaw. "Who sinned," the disciples asked Jesus on another occasion, "this man or his parents that he was born blind?" (John 9:2). The old vision of the Divine Cosmic Jailer lingers on even today.