Read Matthew 8
Were any of
the disciples married? We know that
Peter was. How? Jesus healed Peter’s mother-in-law.
Jesus had
come to Peter’s house. His mother-in-law
had a fever. Jesus touched her and she
was well. The fever was gone.
What did she
do? She got up and went to work waiting
on everyone. It’s not like she had a
man-cold where she would need a full week to recover.
We can
chuckle a little here. Jesus healed her
and she went to work, but why not? Why
not get back to doing the things you couldn’t do well while you were sick.
When we are
sick, we want our lives back. We want to
do the things that we took for granted before, even if it’s cooking, cleaning,
or rotating the tires.
We should be
thankful for every day of good health, but sometimes we have to recover from
illness to remember to thank God for health.
Health Care
is a big topic these days. Jesus came to
take care of our preexisting conditions—sin and everything that sin brought
upon us, but he also came to take away our infirmities—our illness and disease
in these bodies and during our time in this world.
Yes,
sometimes the answer to our prayer is that my grace is enough for you,
but we should not shy away from asking for healing and cleansing because
sometimes a condition persists.
Too often we
just classify illness, infirmity, and disease as the cost of doing business in
a sinful world. To an extent, that’s on
the money.
But we have
Jesus. We have the Great Physician. We have one not restrained by the rules of
the world. The blood of Jesus has healed
us for all eternity. He has removed the
stain of our sin, but we can have healing in this time and in this world and in
our infirmities.
Many came to
see Jesus with many ailments and Jesus healed them. Jesus healed them.
What the prophet had spoken, Jesus had fulfilled.
Let’s not
just throw our infirmities into the cost of doing business in a sinful world
basket. Let us ask, seek, and knock as
directed and expect all of those prayers to be answered, many as proffered.
Amen.
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