JESUS HEALS
Mark 7:31-37
Jesus healed men of their bodily ailments when he was down here. And he still does. He uses and blesses human knowledge and skill, and he heals also, by direct touch. Yet frequently he permits ailments to remain unhealed so that we may be healed of our stubborn ways, and be wrought into sweet, full accord with himself. Satan contests this ground stubbornly. He imitates God’s healing. Jesus gladly heals when he can have full sway in the life.
Isaiah 43:17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
Think about these questions as you meditate on the verse. What does this verse teach me? How does this verse apply to my Life?
TIED UP OR FREE?
Mark 7:24-30
Jesus undoes sin’s work. He unties sin’s knots, tears away the bonds, sets the man free, and flushes in new life. Sin cripples the body with weakness and disease, the mind with stupidity and prejudice, the spirit with selfishness and self-will, and the life with stain and evil habit. When Jesus is allowed free swing he frees body, mind, spirit, and life of all that hurts, and gives new life in flood-tide measure.
SIN’S KNOTS
Mark 7:1-13
Sin ties a man up, hands and feet, head and heart, and puts on hard knots. If it can’t do it directly, then indirectly. If it can’t do it fully, it gets all it can. If straight- out sin can’t get hold, selfishness usually can, and Light hold, too. And custom, prejudice, habit, superstition—these tie a man up. It’s a pretty safe guess that every one of us is a slave to something. What is it with you?
NEVER LOSE HEART
Matthew 13:18-58; Matthew 13:32
All sorts of folk to work with: some locked up to your approaches; some unappreciative of the best you do; some utterly indifferent; some seeming hopeful, then proving so unsteady and wobbly. But difficulties only show the great need. They couldn’t stop
Jesus, nor take the edge off his eager gentleness. Love grew in its hold. Little by little, more and more, it grew. This is the Jesusway.. And he’s our Example in service.
PATIENCE—LOVE AT ITS BEST
Luke 6:12-19
Jesus let others help him. We may think He could have gotten along without help, if anybody could or can. They weren’t the best helpers. They stumbled, and blundered, and—worse. They didn’t understand him. They misunderstood him, and they hindered him, too. It would have been easier without them, sometimes. But patiently, gently, without getting provoked, he let them help him. It was a great thing for them. And he’s our Example in service.
