Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Desperately Clean


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Matthew 8 (YAY !)

Jesus Cleanses a Leper
Jesus came down from the mountain even more of a celebrity, crowds were following Jesus wherever He went. If Jesus would have written a book then, it would have been a guaranteed bestseller with people asking Him for an autograph. In the middle of this ruckus, a disease man dropped to his knees, before Him. 

He could have been concerned about the things we are:
How do I look?” 
 
I'm going to see the Great Rabbi. Perhaps I should get my life together.”

What will people think of me?”

At that moment, the two most important things in his life were Jesus and his own sad condition. This is how a desperate person operates. 
 
When our focus becomes more about others than Jesus, we require refocusing. The best life is lived as a realization of our desperate need for God.

When you feel loneliness or mistreatment as alien emotions, that's because we were created to be ultimately fulfilled by God's presence, like an embrace that never ends, or a good time that lasts forever. We were made for God, anything short feels wrong.

Interestingly enough, Jesus asks this man not to run around and spread the news, but to follow the law of Moses by showing himself to the priest and completing the necessary procedures for cleansing from leprosy detailed in Leviticus 14:1-32.

This miracle of Jesus further served to reinforce the authority of His teaching.

In Him,

Jean-Marc

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