Your sins are forgiven!
19th August 2006
My previous meditation was spurred by my own personal experience of agonizing through an incredibly tough problem I was facing. The breakthrough came for me via a Bible reading in church. While the sermon addressed another issue, the Scriptures read that day jumped out at me and it was as if God was singling me out and speaking to me directly.
The meditation on that passage of Scripture led to another meditation on a similar passage. In both passages, Jesus healed a lame (or as the Scriptures refer to him, paralytic) man. In this passage, the paralyzed man was brought to Jesus by his friends. As his friends came to the house where Jesus was preaching, they were blocked by a crowd of people and there was no way they could get through.
His friends were undaunted. They thought (and acted) outside the box, and broke down the barriers. They climbed to the top of the house and broke through the roof to lower the man down on a makeshift platform with his mat.
Jesus’ words to the man was surprising, especially to the religious leaders of the day: “Son, your sins are forgiven!” Read the rest of this entry »
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