What do you want me to do for you?
—Mark 10:51
Two times in Mark 10 Jesus asked this question: “What do you want me to do for you?”
James and John tried to sneak one past him: “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”
He didn’t bite.
Instead, he asked, “What do you want me to do for you?”
“Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.” A self-centered entreaty for preeminence.
Down the road, a blind beggar shouted, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked.
“Teacher, I want to see.”
James and John were blind and didn’t know it. The beggar was blind and knew it.
We all have our blind spots.
Identifying your blind spots
is an essential ingredient in self-awareness.