Jesus – my teacher. Jesus opens our eyes to know the proper way of life.

The blind man, led by the one-eyed man, goes to visit his grandmother. On the way through the forest, the one-eyed man loses his excellent eye when he impales himself on a branch… Jesus says: “Can the blind lead the blind?” (Lk 6:39). Let us speak of the inner blindness that our Lord points out when He gives the correct explanation of the Law on the Mount of Beatitudes.

The goal of the true Israelite, the Jew, is to become righteous and holy by keeping the Law that God gave to the Jewish people after the deliverance from Egypt. Jesus asks if the blind can lead the blind and says that the disciple is not above the teacher. Jesus is pointing out that the leaders of the people – the teachers of the people, have impaired eyesight or are blind, and leading the disciples entrusted to them leads to disaster; that is, they cannot properly walk in the way of the Lord to keep His commandments, and thus come to righteousness. Their interpretations of the Law are wrong and often only external. Jesus is the true Teacher who came to open the eyes of those who do not see. To spread even the eyes of the teachers to lead the people aright. He did not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it. To illuminate the way with the truth that is good and leads to life. He explains the whole Law through the commandment of love of God and neighbor. The Law is not just a disciplinary order with commands and prohibitions that must be outwardly obeyed. Still, above all, it must be internalized, i.e., it must be part of our heart, a way of life to which God Himself, who loves man and desires his love, calls us.

We live in a world where there is much that is good and noble but also murders its children, children kill their parents, and the leaders who govern us under the pressure of so-called ‘public opinion say it is all right. We claim to understand the unhappiness that wars on all sides will cause, yet wars are still in the world. We wonder how this is possible; after all, has society learned its lesson? The answer is given to us by God Himself – man is destroying himself because he is in the darkness of his sin, living in delusion, in the desire for power, for control over others, wanting to be master over life and death. For him, other people are merely a means to his egoistic ends. Man refuses to submit to God and even puts himself in the position of God Himself, thus becoming not only an idolater but an idol. He only worships himself, throwing away God’s standards and giving himself only his own rules. What happens to him is pretty straightforward; since he is blind, he will not enter the finish line, and those like him will not. There is only one WAY out of the pit they are in – the way of conversion, the practice of accepting Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and Savior, as the One who is the Light of the World.

Today, as in the past, we often point only to the faults of others. We are only those who negatively analyze the deeds of our neighbors. Our attitudes are not those of Christians supposed to be people of love.