Blessed day to you
Have you begun to rest as yet? The weekend’s almost done and it will soon be back to the daily routine. Please make some you time today.
Here’s today’s nougat
Jesus went into the synagogue again and noticed a man with a deformed hand. Mark 3.1
When I read this version of the healing; it struck me. A person with a deformity was obviously a very big deal in those days. And, as my mind skittered back to leprosy, I remembered that the purity laws would probably have had something to do with that. Persons with visible signs of disability were not generally welcome in the synagogue. (How do we accommodate persons with disabilities in our congregations? Have we even recognised the need to?)
But, that was no ordinary Sabbath. For Jesus happened to be around and in town. It was no ordinary Lord’s day for the man who seemed to be displaced – in the wrong social place on the wrong day. For, in the eyes of Jesus who noticed him, he was in the RIGHT social place at the RIGHT spiritual time. Can you imagine?
Some of us might be feeling like the man with the deformed hand. As tho no one really cares who we are, we might as well be dead. That even at church (/especially at church) there’s no one who cares.
But
Could it be that Jesus is around and in town? Is it possible that with the gazillion people in the world; Jesus has noticed YOU? Cause if so, get out your dancing shoes; there’s about to be a miracle on the Sabbath!
Lord I thank you that you notice every single one of us standing outside your temple with our individual deformities. We look to you to break convention and heal us. Jesus, son of David; son of the Living God; have mercy and heal.
In Christ’s love and grace . . .
