"And there came a leper to (Jesus), beseeching Him, and kneeling down to Him, and saying unto Him, If you will (if you are willing), you can make me clean. 41. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand, and touched him, and said unto him, I will (I am willing), be thou clean. 42. And as soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.”
In this passage the leper came to Jesus to be healed, and he wondered if Jesus would be willing to rid him of his leprosy. Leprosy was, and still is in some places, a terrible thing to have, because one had to isolate himself from the rest of the world. People were deathly afraid of getting leprosy. At any rate, Jesus reached out and touched the leper and he was healed - Jesus was willing. There are some lessons here for us that could help us in our relationship with Jesus. First, Jesus is never reluctant to meet the needs that we bring to Him. Throughout the gospels we see the willingness of Jesus to intervene in people’s lives and make life better for them. You might be thinking that you went to Jesus for healing and you did not get healed. Some would say that it was your lack of faith that caused Jesus to not heal you. You need to understand that Jesus’ willingness to help us is not based on His giving us what we want, but His willingness to give us what we need. I know that I have referred to my bout with cancer a lot, and I am certainly not bragging about it. You must know that when I got the word that I had cancer; I went immediately to Jesus with it and asked Him to heal me. The amazing thing is that He did not heal my body, but in the process of my suffering He healed my soul. During the time that I was fighting with cancer, I grew more spiritually than I ever have in my life. I learned the importance of depending on Him for every breath that I take. I learned that His willingness to heal me was based on what my greatest needs were. The bottom line was that I needed to draw closer to Jesus, and to learn to depend totally upon Him. Second, Jesus is willing to heal whatever needs healing in your life. You might have an attitude problem. You might have a relationship problem. You might have a problem with a bad habit that you can’t seem to break. It could be that you have a physical problem that is weighting you down. There is no end to the possibilities of what you need to bring to Jesus to heal. Just remember this: Jesus is willing to heal you and help you with whatever it is that you need to have healed. Third, it might be that you feel that you are just unworthy to seek the healing power of Jesus. I want you to notice something in this text. Verse 41 tells us: “And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand and touched him, and said unto him, I will be thou clean.” You need to know that when you take your need to Jesus, whether it is physical or otherwise, you find that He has compassion for you. That is to say that He cares about what you are going through and that He loves you. Notice also that Jesus reached out and touched the leper. People just did not do that in that day. As aforementioned, people were deathly afraid of catching leprosy and would not dare touch a leper. But Jesus was not reluctant at all to touch him. I think that one of the reasons that Jesus touched him was that the man had not felt a personal touch for a long time. People would do anything to stay away from him. You might think that what you bring to Jesus iis unforgiveable, and that you need a touch from someone who understands. Whatever your sin, it is not unforgiveable and you can know that Jesus understands and is willing to forgive you, heal your soul, and help you make the changes that you need to make to make your life better. In other words, Jesus will reach out and touch you as He did the leper. Bro. Joe
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