Sunday Nugget - Jesus Wants To

From today's gospel reading:

A leper came to him and pleaded on his knees: "If you want to" he said "you can cure me". Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him. "Of course I want to!" he said. "Be cured!" And the leprosy left him at once and he was cured. Jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him, "Mind you say nothing to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your healing prescribed by Moses as evidence of your recovery". The man went away, but then started talking about it freely and telling the story everywhere, so that Jesus could no longer go openly into any town, but had to stay outside in places where nobody lived. Even so, people from all around would come to him. Mark 1:40 - 45

Jesus, if you want to you can cure me. You can cleanse me of the leprosy of my sin. You can heal my world. We are surrounded by rationalism and materialism, by violence and cynicism, where we sin without thinking both by commission as well as omissionnecessity nessecity that we KNOW without a doubt that Jesus wants to. He wants to cure us. He wants to remove the darkness of sin and bring us back into the sunlight of His love. It is our job to bring our ailing selves to Him for that healing grace.

In a spiritual manner we are all lepers looking for wholeness. As ugly and embarrassing our disease there can only be joy when our priest brings us back into the Lord's house. Take time today to bring your ills to the perfect healer, because as much as you want to be cured, He wants to cure infinitely more.


File Under : Jesus, The Gospel, and I'm a Leper, You're a Leper, Wouldn't You Like To Be A Leper Too?

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