Matthew 9:27-31 Advent day 6
Everyone is familiar with receiving good news that's very hard to contain. I can picture Lucy bursting with some tidbit of gossip that she's been forbidden to tell but wants desperately to tell Ethel. Lucy might say, I can't tell you but if you guess....... and then the twenty questions begins. We have all had a situation when we have something really good to impart and can hardly wait to tell someone or everyone. I myself was recently in this position as my daughter and her husband are expecting. I want to tell everyone I am so excited.
I can only imagine what a blind person would feel after regaining sight. Don't tell anyone? Who is Jesus kidding!
Day six of Advent - preparing, anticipating. We know that the birth of Jesus is eminent. How can we contain our excitement about this? For one thing, God is creating the situation where Jesus, while God, will be fully human. Jesus is doing this willingly, lovingly and wholeheartedly. he would know all that we know, all that we feel, love like we love, bleed like we bleed. He is doing it for you and me. Isn't that something to be excited over? Jesus is embracing the life we live. He will show us the fragility of life but also the highs of glory we are capable of as humans. First we must embrace who we are. Sometimes reluctantly of course but we should embrace who we are, it is a gift. It was no picnic for Jesus to embrace his divinity - look what it brought him to.
Life isn't always clean and easy but we will always find peace knowing we accept who we are and that we loved. Part of the gift of who we are and life itself.
I can only imagine what a blind person would feel after regaining sight. Don't tell anyone? Who is Jesus kidding!
Day six of Advent - preparing, anticipating. We know that the birth of Jesus is eminent. How can we contain our excitement about this? For one thing, God is creating the situation where Jesus, while God, will be fully human. Jesus is doing this willingly, lovingly and wholeheartedly. he would know all that we know, all that we feel, love like we love, bleed like we bleed. He is doing it for you and me. Isn't that something to be excited over? Jesus is embracing the life we live. He will show us the fragility of life but also the highs of glory we are capable of as humans. First we must embrace who we are. Sometimes reluctantly of course but we should embrace who we are, it is a gift. It was no picnic for Jesus to embrace his divinity - look what it brought him to.
Life isn't always clean and easy but we will always find peace knowing we accept who we are and that we loved. Part of the gift of who we are and life itself.
As Jesus passed by, two blind men followed him, crying out,
"Son of David, have pity on us!"
When he entered the house,
the blind men approached him and Jesus said to them,
"Do you believe that I can do this?"
"Yes, Lord," they said to him.
Then he touched their eyes and said,
"Let it be done for you according to your faith."
And their eyes were opened.
Jesus warned them sternly,
"See that no one knows about this."
But they went out and spread word of him through all that land.
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