Mark 3:1-6- " A Man with a Withered Hand.."
The Lord has been chasing me with this scripture Mark 3: 1-6, about a man with a withered hand. At first I couldn't figure out why? You see I have Multiple Sclerosis (MS) , and any one that knows or has this disease, knows it keeps taking life way from you slowly..so I could relate to the man with the wither hand in the synagogue. You see the man's case was pitiful; with his withered hand, he was disabled to work for his living; and those that are so, are the most proper objects of charity; those needing helped because they cannot help themselves. The people in the synagogue were very nasty, both to Jesus and the man with the withered hand; instead of interceding for a poor neighbor, they did what they could to hinder his cure: for they implied, if Christ cured him now on the Sabbath Day, they could accuse him as a Sabbath breaker. This is very unreasonable, just like if you would opposed a physician or surgeon in helping any poor body in misery, by ordinary methods; but what they thought was more absurd was not to oppose Jesus, that cured without any labor, but by a word’s speaking.
Our hands give us life.. to go forward not backwards in life, to produce good fruits of our labor. There may be many that hinder us because of our condition (withered hand). lets look toward the Great Physician, though our hands are withered, and we cannot physically, for ourselves stretch them forth, we must attempt it, give an effort, as well as we physically can, lift them up to God in prayer, lay hold on Christ and eternal life, and employ them in good works; and if we do our endeavor, power goes along with the word of Christ, he effects the cure. Though our hands be withered, yet, if we will not offer, mentally or physically, to stretch them out, it is our own fault that we are not healed; but if we do, and are healed, Christ and his power and grace must have all the glory. Amen!!
Our hands give us life.. to go forward not backwards in life, to produce good fruits of our labor. There may be many that hinder us because of our condition (withered hand). lets look toward the Great Physician, though our hands are withered, and we cannot physically, for ourselves stretch them forth, we must attempt it, give an effort, as well as we physically can, lift them up to God in prayer, lay hold on Christ and eternal life, and employ them in good works; and if we do our endeavor, power goes along with the word of Christ, he effects the cure. Though our hands be withered, yet, if we will not offer, mentally or physically, to stretch them out, it is our own fault that we are not healed; but if we do, and are healed, Christ and his power and grace must have all the glory. Amen!!
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