MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Sunday August 23, 2020
Topic: Divine Compassion
Text: Mark 1:40 – 45
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 Leviticus 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 Leviticus 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 to have a turn around.
Food for Thought: Jesus’ compassion for us undermines the law and protocols
Memory verse: Mark 1 v 41
