DIVINE
COMPASSION: Devotion for Monday July 25, 2016
Text:
Mark 1:40 – 45
Memory
verse: Mark 1:41 - Then Jesus, moved with
compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am
willing; be cleansed."
The real value of a person is inside, not
outside. Although a person’s body may be diseased or deformed but the real
person inside is valuable to God. No person is too disgusting for God’s touch. This
was the reason Jesus despised the law to give this leper a divine touch. In
keeping with the law in Lev. 13 and 14, it is the Jewish leaders that declare
people with leprosy unclean. This meant that lepers were unfit to participate
in any religious or social activity. According to laws about leprosy in Lev. 13
and 14, when a leper was cured, he or she had to go to a priest to be examined.
Then the leper will give a thanks offering at the Temple. Jesus adhered to
these laws by sending the man to the priest, demonstrating Jesus’ complete
regard for God’s law.
In a sense, we are all people with leprosy
because we have all been deformed by the ugliness of sin. By sending His Son,
Jesus, God has touched us, giving us the opportunity to be healed. Have you
received that Divine touch? Divine touch is not only for healing of leprosy. It
brings salvation, peace, breakthrough, favour, promotion, business
opportunities, etc. All that is expected of you is to apply to the Saviour with
great humility, and with full submission to His will. I assure you that He will
stretch out His hands upon you now for the Divine touch you need for a turn
around.
Food
for Thought: Jesus’
compassion undermines protocols.
Prayer: Lord God, break every protocol and law to touch me at the point of my need in Jesus name.
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