Word For 7/6/2022

 

Word For 7/6/2022

 

“For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have Hope.” Romans 15:4

 

Luke 5:17-26 One day JESUS is in a house teaching and it is crowded. So crowded, that friends of a crippled man who have carried him to the house cannot get in. So they go onto the roof and break through and lower the man down into the crowd through the hole. This brings the meeting to a halt, and JESUS seeing their faith tells the man, “Man, your sins are forgiven!” This causes no small discord among the religious leaders and JESUS knows what they are thinking. So He challenges their religious thinking by saying, “Why are you raising questions in your hearts? Which is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you.’ Or to say, ‘Get up and walk.’? But so you know that The Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins….He says to the paralyzed one, ‘I tell you, get up and take your cot and go home!’” Immediately the man got up, picked up his cot and left, glorifying GOD. The people there were astonished and said, “We’ve seen incredible things today!”

 

Oswald Chambers once said, “It is no use to wait for GOD to help us, He will not; but immediately we arise we find He is there.” I’ve always had some issues with that philosophy, but this morning as I was meditating on this story I realized that the crippled man was passive through the whole experience until JESUS told him to get up and walk. Did he feel a surge of GOD’s Power and realize he was healed or did he just obey in faith? What about the crippled man by the pool of Bethesda or the blind man whom JESUS put mud on his eyes and told him to go wash his eyes? None of these men had to do what JESUS told them, but they did and they all got healed!

 

Faith is not a noun, it is an action verb, if we have faith, we will obey!

Seek GOD First!

GOD Bless, Bob & Charlene