JESUS OUR HEALER

Mark 2: 30-31 NLT Now Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a high fever. They told Jesus about her right away. So he went to her bedside, took her by the hand, and helped her sit up. Then the fever left her, and she prepared a meal for them.

When Peter’s mum in law fell sick they all knew what to do. They told Jesus about it immediately! They knew and believed Jesus could and would do something about it and so they had no hesitation in asking for His help. Jesus wants us to go to Him first as well, before we do anything else.😊

I love the confidence the disciples had in Jesus. They knew a big part of His ministry was to heal the sick and we only read of Him not doing miracles when they were so hard hearted that they refused to believe He could or would do it. (Mark 6:5-6) How sad!

The trouble is we can become hard hearted or discouraged as well. We want Jesus to snap His fingers and make things go away immediately, but sometimes we have a faith fight on our hands and have to stand on His word despite what we see or feel, and put our faith into gear when doubts and cynicism are banging on our door.

As she lay there, Peter’s mum in law must have looked up into the loving eyes of Jesus and heard the kindness in His voice as He took hold of her hand and helped her sit up. She would have seen His compassion and known He loved her and felt His power flowing into her body, dispelling the sickness.😊

When we ask for healing, we probably all want a quick fix, but do we take the time to look into Jesus’ eyes to see His love for us, to spend time with him, to know He’s holding our hand and gently picking us up and releasing His power to heal us? 

Galations 5:6 says faith works through love. God has given us His love and His faith, so the next time we don’t feel well or need His healing in some area, let’s do what the disciples did and go to Jesus first. Invite Him into our room, take time to look into His eyes and see the love and compassion He has for us, and allow Him to help us trust Him more and receive the healing we need.😊 In Jesus name. Amen.

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WRINKLES OR SPOTS

Ephesians 5:25-27 NLT … He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

When we’re younger, we often look in the mirror and see some spot has popped up out of nowhere. Then as we grow older and look in the mirror, we can see wrinkles! All of which are disturbing for a time, but God says if we’ll look in the mirror of His Word we will see a different picture altogether.😊

2 Corinthians 3:18 NLT So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. 

He says the more we look in the Word we’ll see we’re being transformed into His likeness because it will reflect back to us who God says we are and how He now sees us. It doesn’t happen overnight, but we’re being cleansed by God’s word each time we read it. The secret is to read it and allow it to transform us!😊

As born again believers we’re all part of God’s worldwide church and we know we don’t always get it right, but praise God, we are all a work in progress being changed from one degree of glory to another. Even when we feel we have a long way to go, we can still see how far we’ve come, and God has made us this promise of being changed into His glorious image so we can rest in it and on it.

As Jesus said, “I will build my church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.” So we can be encouraged, because whether we have physical wrinkles and spots or not doesn’t really matter, because we are assured we are being changed into His likeness for His glory as we’re washed by the cleansing of His Word.😊 My question to myself is, am I allowing myself to be washed? How about you?

Thank You Lord. Amen.

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