Jesus replies, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
In my head I try to picture the look on Jesus' face when saying this to the Pharisees. In my head i see him giving the "duh" look. HAHA. Nah... I am sure Jesus didn't do that but to me it seems so obvious. LOL
I am beginning to see a theme in Jesus' healings. Whenever He heals someone He says "your faith has healed you" well I should say most of the time He says this.
When I think how strong faith is and what it can do I ponder why we are so hesitant now a days to heal someone? Is it because we are afraid we might scare someone away from our church? Are we uncomfortable? Are we skeptical? Or do we not have the faith at all?
I feel that God has so much more for us than what we are. I want to be all that God intends and wants me to be. Don't you?
God can use us in mighty ways! He can call any one of us to heal someone, to pray for someone, to teach someone, to have mercy, to evangelize, to discern and the list can go on and on and on.
There is no limit to how God can use you and I. Isn't that fantastic!!!?
One part of what Jesus said in chapter 10 really stuck out to me it is verse 10:28
"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
Angie's Thoughts
I want to touch upon what Nikke already has because it stuck out to me, too. All the times that Jesus healed someone and did not say, "I have healed you," but rather "Your faith has healed you." The more I read the more apparent it becomes of the value our Lord has in our faith. I remembered a verse as I was reading, one that comes a little later in Matthew
Matthew 17:20 "He told them, "Because of your lack of faith. I tell you with certainty, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."
So, I think that kind of gives us perspective of the potential that we have. And I think that we've barely scratched the surface of this potential. Why? I'm not sure. As Nikke was saying, I would certainly feel uncomfortable walking up to a person in a wheel chair and praying over them and commanding them to walk in the name of the Lord LOL. And I think that would be for fear.. that I would actually do that and it wouldn't work. And I'd just stand there like an idiot. Hahah. And I want to kick myself for that. Because then I think... I must not even have enough faith to fill a mustard seed! But if we have faith in the Lord, then why do we doubt him in such ways? Because for people like me.. to doubt myself and my faith is to doubt the Lord, isn't it?
Well, I guess I think everyone has to take more risks with their faith. Put themselves out on the line and something even if theres a great chance that they'll just end up looking like an idiot. Because that's the worst that could happen. Is that we'd look like an idiot. haha. And I'm sure there would be a lot more miracles and I'd like to think that I could risk looking like an idiot for a miracle.
Okay what else... yeah that's about it.. yay :)
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