Transparent Freedom

Last Tuesday at lunch time a group at Casa Ford gathered for a lesson on “Healing and Forgiveness” from a Lucado study based on The Gospel of Mark.  We read about how Jesus forgave the sins of a man who was lowered through the roof of a home by his friends.  After that, Jesus told this paralytic to stand up, take his mat, and go home.  In obedience to these words of Jesus, the man’s body was able to do something impossible before this encounter.

A broken and tired salesman at the table with bloodshot, teary eyes told the group about his son who was born by emergency c-section a couple weeks ago.  The baby came into the world weighing about four pounds, and his lungs were flat.  The doctors put him on a respirator and did all they could to support his life. 

The infant’s condition improved and then declined, which aggravated the emotional rollercoaster.  At our gathering, the salesman told us that they had decided to keep their son on life support for two more days.  If he could not survive, he would be the fifth child that this young man and his wife had lost.  

In faith, we asked Jesus to heal this child.

At the same time, the respirator in the hospital began to go haywire.  It was an unexplainable malfunction that led the doctors to bring in another respirator for the child.  That machine too went haywire.  So they had to remove the child from the machine.

The boy began to breathe.  Jesus chose to heal this child in a miraculous way.  It was an undeserved gift of grace, and God wanted to make sure nobody would chalk it up to some act of man.  Jesus heals today as He always has.  Put your faith in Him, and ask for unexplainable mysteries to amaze us into worship, faith, and greater obedience.