What Cannot Be Seen--April 4, 2020

God, what can be seen may be important,

but sometimes what cannot be seen

is more important.

Blind Bartimaeus could not see his call,

but he knew of its significance.

Hot anger may be invisible,

but its effects can be deadly.

Your Light and Truth are detectable

only by the internal eye,

but they lead us to your eternal place.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143

Exod. 10:21-11:8

2 Cor. 4:13-18

Mark 10:46-52

Selected Verses

Ps. 43:3

O send out your light and your truth;
          let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy hill
          and to your dwelling.

Exod. 11:8b

And in hot anger [Moses] left Pharaoh.

2 Cor. 4:18

…because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.

Mark 10:49b

And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart; get up, he is calling you.”