Come and See ‘09 Followup

The real Paralysis

14 03 2009

In the Scripture passage we used last Saturday afternoon in ‘Come and See’, four men lower the paralytic before Jesus (Mark 2:1-12). This was indeed a risky thing to do. First of all, it’s not the safest thing to cut a hole in someone’s roof and expect to get away with it; then it was risky because as the man was being lowered from that height he may easily have rolled off and fallen down on the people below; and last of all, it was rude to interrupt a Rabbi when he was teaching the people. Yet they did and their faith quickly got Jesus attention. The interesting thing is that they asked for healing of the paralysis of the body when Jesus saw that the man was paralysed in his soul because of his sin. So he dealt with the most important thing first. In this time of Lent, the Lord wants to do the same thing with us. He wants us to recognise that the worst thing that can happen to us is to live in grave sin, away from His grace. So Lent is a time of conversion and of , of asking forgiveness with faith in Jesus’ mercy - then we can really hear Jesus tell us ‘Get up and walk’.

Look up Psalm 52 and 1 John 1:9.