BobHunt
12th November 2005, 11:37 PM (23:37)
Remember the leper who Jesus healed? Can you see him standing there with eyes big as silver dollars, his jaw dropped halfway to the ground, as he examines his outstretched hand? "Yep, the fingers are all there now!" And they are as whole as a new born baby! He suddenly whirls and started shouting "Honey....wheres my wife...I gotta find her...honey you've never seen anything like this!"
Remember the crippled man who lay beside the pool waiting for the waters to be troubled? He always had a dread that no one would be around to help him get in the pool! Now, a Healer was supposed to come by. Was this just another one of those tv healers? (oh maybe they didnt exist then!) "But what have I got to lose by believing Him?" His despair was turned into joy and abundant hope, and he could not contain himself! His lameness became leaping, and shouting and praising God!
I remember a young man, back in the old Pilgrim Church, who had been attending a week of evening revival services. An evangelist had come from Charleston, Illinois and had preached his heart out. A few of his words had become as barbed arrows and found a place in this young man's heart.
One of those services was drawing to a close, the instruments were playing the altar call, and this young man stood with fingers gripping the pew in front of him until it seemed his fingers would go right through the wood. then God gave his fingers the power to let go and meet God at an altar of prayer!
This week, I have been thinking about all the changes God has made in my life since that moment! Go back to the scene of the healed leper again. I can see Jesus as He gives the leper a little playful shove and says "You're healed and now you're free to go home!"
Jesus has healed us of the awful disease of sin! He passed by our hearts door one day, and the only doorknob was on the inside which we turned and invited Him in. He came in and swept every room, washed it and filled it with the beautiful fragrance of His presence.
Now, being a Holy people, we are free and confortable, to one of these days meet our Holy God and go home for the last time!
I say, "Praise God!"
Remember the crippled man who lay beside the pool waiting for the waters to be troubled? He always had a dread that no one would be around to help him get in the pool! Now, a Healer was supposed to come by. Was this just another one of those tv healers? (oh maybe they didnt exist then!) "But what have I got to lose by believing Him?" His despair was turned into joy and abundant hope, and he could not contain himself! His lameness became leaping, and shouting and praising God!
I remember a young man, back in the old Pilgrim Church, who had been attending a week of evening revival services. An evangelist had come from Charleston, Illinois and had preached his heart out. A few of his words had become as barbed arrows and found a place in this young man's heart.
One of those services was drawing to a close, the instruments were playing the altar call, and this young man stood with fingers gripping the pew in front of him until it seemed his fingers would go right through the wood. then God gave his fingers the power to let go and meet God at an altar of prayer!
This week, I have been thinking about all the changes God has made in my life since that moment! Go back to the scene of the healed leper again. I can see Jesus as He gives the leper a little playful shove and says "You're healed and now you're free to go home!"
Jesus has healed us of the awful disease of sin! He passed by our hearts door one day, and the only doorknob was on the inside which we turned and invited Him in. He came in and swept every room, washed it and filled it with the beautiful fragrance of His presence.
Now, being a Holy people, we are free and confortable, to one of these days meet our Holy God and go home for the last time!
I say, "Praise God!"