Blindly Finding Jesus

Mark 10:46-52
A blind man on the side of the road is calling out to Jesus as he passes by.  He refers to him as "The Son of David", indicating he believes in Jesus as the promised one, the Savior.  He cries out and cries out, despite what others are saying to him, telling him to be quiet.  He must have this Jesus hear him.  And Jesus finally calls out to him to come.  So, this poor blind beggar leaves behind his cloak and immediately rises and takes after Jesus.  Although he cannot see, he finds his way to Jesus anyways, pushing his way through the crowd, not caring that he cannot see.  He trusts that he will get to Jesus eventually, even though this man has not heard Jesus personally call him.  He was told that Jesus was calling him (vs. 49).  How many times do we wait to see before we will come after Jesus?  We wait for the personal voice to come specifically to us and want to see the path to take and see Jesus standing there at the end waiting for us.  This man had none of those things, and yet he was desperate enough to walk forward anyways.  And his original request was not for healing, it was for mercy (vs. 47), being given what he did not deserve.  And when the potential opportunity presented itself he left what little he had and ventured out towards the merciful one.  And once he finds Jesus, he does not go back to gather his belongings, what little he did have, he leaves them all behind and continues with Jesus.  A cloak for a poor man was probably fairly important, but Jesus is more important, his mercy is more important.  How often do we "leave" behind our belongings to come to Jesus in our desperate hour only to return to them later?  Does this not evidence that we feel we have received our just due, that we have received what we are entitled to?  This man clung to Jesus because he has received what he did not deserve (mercy) and was afraid of returning to his former position, lest he receive what he did deserve (separation from Jesus).  We return to our old ways and belongings because we are not afraid to leave the merciful one because we feel we are entitled to mercy whenever we so choose and so we go back to those things that are truly important to us, the things that we are truly afraid of losing, and it is not Jesus.  Would we blindly venture out after Christ, leaving everything behind, never to return to them, on the hunch or possibility we may encounter Christ?  This man did.