Jesus' compassion is like nothing else. Our compassion isn't even a petty rival to his. It is no small wonder that he spent so much time just healing people. The crippled, the blind, the maimed, the mute, the sick - they all came to Jesus because he was willing to heal them. They would throw themselves down at Jesus' feet, and he healed them all. It is Jesus' passion to heal. It's been said that the Gospel of Jesus is a Gospel of Healing.
Sometimes we get so caught up with the forgiveness of sins that we forget that that's not entirely why Jesus came. He came for a host of reasons, one of them being to heal us. If we think it's all about being forgiven, where is the healing, the life change? Jesus healed more people publically than he forgave people publically; I think this says something about his passion to heal us. I may not be crippled, blind, maimed, mute or sick, but I'm in need of healing just as much as they. My own shortcoming and pitfalls - the lust, the greed, the hot-headedness, the lies - speak volumes of a sickness of which I need to be healed. Jesus wants to heal us; we must let him, and bear through the chemotherapy.
When the people saw the mutes speaking, the maimed healthy, the paraplegics walking around, the blind looking around, they were astonished and made sure everyone knew that God was blazingly alive among them. It was not so much Jesus' words - "You are healed" - but the fact that they were healed that sent this Kingdom-news flying around Judea. When I read this, I am reminded once again that it is not so much our words that stick to peoples' hearts, but our actions - in that sense, it is our changed lives that show the world that there is something big with Jesus.
Sometimes we get so caught up with the forgiveness of sins that we forget that that's not entirely why Jesus came. He came for a host of reasons, one of them being to heal us. If we think it's all about being forgiven, where is the healing, the life change? Jesus healed more people publically than he forgave people publically; I think this says something about his passion to heal us. I may not be crippled, blind, maimed, mute or sick, but I'm in need of healing just as much as they. My own shortcoming and pitfalls - the lust, the greed, the hot-headedness, the lies - speak volumes of a sickness of which I need to be healed. Jesus wants to heal us; we must let him, and bear through the chemotherapy.
When the people saw the mutes speaking, the maimed healthy, the paraplegics walking around, the blind looking around, they were astonished and made sure everyone knew that God was blazingly alive among them. It was not so much Jesus' words - "You are healed" - but the fact that they were healed that sent this Kingdom-news flying around Judea. When I read this, I am reminded once again that it is not so much our words that stick to peoples' hearts, but our actions - in that sense, it is our changed lives that show the world that there is something big with Jesus.
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