More Than Meets the Eye

Friend, your sins are forgiven you…….He said to the paralytic ~ I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home. Luke 5:20,24b (New American Standard Bible)

Jesus’ deity, power, and intervention were shown in a paralyzed man’s internal world as well as his external world. Both the forgiveness of sins and the healing of the body are miraculous works that only God can perform. Of the two, it was the physical healing that amazed the crowd that day. Like them, we often put more stock into things we can see, smell, hear, taste, and touch. But we must realize there is a world of amazing things going on IN us every day.

I have never seen a physical healing of a disease. I cannot imagine the impact it would have on a person to see someone who is paralyzed get up and carry what use to carry him. Or to see any number of healings Jesus performed while here on earth…..blindness, deafness, leprosy, demon possession, deformities, and even death. Life threatening, life altering, and life taking situations all transformed before my eyes. The impossible not only made possible but visible. How long would it take for me to stop saying, “Wow!”

May I be just as amazed at the internal things God does every day within me and others. Each time I confess my sins to God (whether they have to do with things I said, thought, or did) He graciously speaks the same words to me as He did in this passage of Scripture…..”Friend, your sins are forgiven you.” Those words mean instant reconciliation and restored fellowship with God. May I never take that lightly. Or the many times I come to Him emotionally spent over heart issues and He calms the storm in my mind just as profoundly as He calmed the storms at sea with His disciples. Or the experience I have on a daily basis of opening Scripture and seeing truth in a way I have never seen before. Words that were penned thousands of years ago becoming personal for me today! Having lived for decades without that experience, I now stand amazed each time it happens.

I challenge each of us to find areas where God touches our internal world each day. He intersects our world in so many precious ways and when we begin to see that, we are forever changed.

Father, for too long I missed the numerous things You were doing in my life. Today, may I see the inner workings and be in awe of You! Amen.

What Sin? By Morgan Cryar
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