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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