Jesus wants it!
Jesus reached out His hand and touched him, saying,
“I am willing; be cleansed.”
Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Matthew 8:3
Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a constant bargain with God as if we thought that his main goal was to make things not so easy for us here on earth. It is as if we were always struggling in order to cause God to bless us in a certain way that we wanted. It is as if we wanted some things and we had to persuade God about giving us the desire of our hearts.
But the passage above shows us a different scenario. It is the story of a man who suffered from leprosy and one day he approached Jesus with a request... “Master, if you want to, you can heal my body.” (Matt 8:2)
Like this man, many times we will come to God pondering in our hearts: is He really willing to do this for me?
Many people think that God will intentionally use diseases or other hard situations in order to teach us some lesson. If it were God´s will that we would be sick or went through tragedies in our lives, then we could think that Jesus did things against God´s will by keeping people from "learning their lessons" whenever he healed them - which would be a nonsense thought!
And if we really believe that God uses diseases to teach us lessons, then when we are sick and go see a doctor, that means we are actually trying to scape from God´s teaching - which also makes no sense!
Although it is not God who CAUSES us to be sick, He will orchestrate things in a way that even such tragedy will cause us good in the end. It is definitely using the lemons to make a lemonade! Or as Paul wrote it:
Graham Cooke says "God excels in using the challenges we face to accelerate our development."
So let us live every day of our lives with assurance in our hearts that JESUS is willing! He does want the BEST for us. He is on our side. He is for us and never against us and it is his good pleasure to give us the desires of our hearts (Psalm 37:4) for He is good indeed and we are deeply loved by the best Father of all. It is all about his goodness and never about if we deserve it or not. He really WANTS to see us happy!
But the passage above shows us a different scenario. It is the story of a man who suffered from leprosy and one day he approached Jesus with a request... “Master, if you want to, you can heal my body.” (Matt 8:2)
Like this man, many times we will come to God pondering in our hearts: is He really willing to do this for me?
"And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all."
Luke 6:19
Many people think that God will intentionally use diseases or other hard situations in order to teach us some lesson. If it were God´s will that we would be sick or went through tragedies in our lives, then we could think that Jesus did things against God´s will by keeping people from "learning their lessons" whenever he healed them - which would be a nonsense thought!
And if we really believe that God uses diseases to teach us lessons, then when we are sick and go see a doctor, that means we are actually trying to scape from God´s teaching - which also makes no sense!
Although it is not God who CAUSES us to be sick, He will orchestrate things in a way that even such tragedy will cause us good in the end. It is definitely using the lemons to make a lemonade! Or as Paul wrote it:
"That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good."
Romans 8:28 (MSG)
So let us live every day of our lives with assurance in our hearts that JESUS is willing! He does want the BEST for us. He is on our side. He is for us and never against us and it is his good pleasure to give us the desires of our hearts (Psalm 37:4) for He is good indeed and we are deeply loved by the best Father of all. It is all about his goodness and never about if we deserve it or not. He really WANTS to see us happy!
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