GOING OUT OF HIS WAY
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Scripture Reading: Matthew 7:28-8:4
“I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”
Matthew 8:3
By this time in his ministry, Jesus had achieved rock star status. He had taught thousands of people great insights about God and his kingdom. The people hung on his every word as if it were inside information on a sure-fire stock. He told them how to live in this world with a generous God who seeks to make something out of them. He spoke with such confidence and clarity that Matthew stated, “He taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.” Jesus was on a roll, and the disciples knew they had to protect their celebrity rabbi. But Jesus had other plans.
As Jesus was making his way down the mountain, people crowded around him. Mothers asked him to kiss their babies, and rabbis asked about his sermon. Then he met a man in desperate need. The man had leprosy, which meant he was untouchable in the eyes of everyone in the crowd. But he fought his way through the masses because he had a request: “Make me clean.”
When we are desperate, we will find our way to Jesus. Why? Like the leprous man, we need a touch from God. This man took a chance that for his sake, God would be willing to go out of his way. “I am willing” was the greatest response the man could hear from Jesus.
The Master has always gone out of his way for his children. He always has time for you and me.
Prayer
Jesus, correct any notion we might have that you have no time for us. Increase our faith in your wonder-working power. Strengthen our trust that you can make us whole. Amen.
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GET TODAY
It reminds me of the scripture in the Bible where Paul says pressing on toward th goal or mark. Well God
wants us to press on in this world we live in today. Without a pressing on in our walk each day we have no drive in us. Sometimes my days are harder than others and yet when I ask the Holy Spirit to give me His grace to get up or press my way I have the most wonderful day. Those days are more
successful than those mapped out days pre-planed pre-arranged days. Thanks be to God for His GRACE to press on toward the goal toward the mark from day to day. Thanks be to God for His Joy which is our strength. Lord direct me today every step of the way even during the rough patcheds of the day and night that I won’t go wrong in you and you in me. In Jesus Name! I pray!.