Day 16
One of my favorite Gospel stories comes out of Mark’s gospel chapter 8 versus 22-26. In this short story Jesus attempts to heal a blind man at Bethsaida. He puts spittle on his eyes and laid hands on him. He asks the man, can you see? The man says he sees people walking around but they look like trees. Jesus repeats the “cure” and the second time the man sees clearly.
I always joke about Jesus having a bad day because it took him two tries to get it right. The truth of the matter is that we all need to go back to Jesus time and time again for healing. None of us are healed once for all. We all need to return to Jesus over and over again and ask for healing again.
I had a friend who had cancer. He went through treatments and went into remission. Eight years later the cancer came back. I asked him if he was using the same doctor. He said he was using the same two doctors: Dr. John Doe and Dr. Jesus. The latter one he said, always works. Let us never forget that our God is a God of healing. And we all need healing.
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