The Pastor’s Porch
July 10, 2020
Do your days blend together like mine do? I have trouble remembering what day it is quite often. Just now I realized that it is already Friday. Where did the week go, right? This week has been tougher than usual with heat and humidity, and with carrying pain with a close friend who is suffering. I look to Jesus for help. There is a story in the Bible about friends carrying a friend to Jesus to be healed. That image is powerful as I think about my friend. Though her own faith is deep and strong, right now she needs a friend to carry her to Jesus. He will heal her. I believe that with all my heart. Do you have someone in your life that needs you to carry them to Jesus? Or maybe you are the one in need. Know that I am praying for you this hot and humid morning. Lord Jesus, some of us are laying a friend at Your feet today. Others of us are being brought to You as well. Please bring us the healing that only You can give. Amen.
Luke 5: 17 One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” 25 Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God.26 Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”
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