When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.” He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I do choose. Be made clean!” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, appealing to him and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible distress.” And he said to him, “I will come and cure him.” The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and the slave does it.” When Jesus heard him, he was amazed and said to those who followed him, “Truly I tell you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and will eat with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you according to your faith.” And the servant was healed in that hour. (Matthew 8:1-13, NRSV)
“If you choose you can make me clean!”
Have you ever said that to Jesus?
Sure most of us aren’t lepers, but we all have something that we need to be cleaned of. Healed from…
And then do you have the faith of the centurion? To say let it be done and it is done?
If you are a parent this might be hard. You tell your kid to clean their room, and they say it is done. But is it?
We hear all the time people telling us they did something, when they didn’t do it, or didn’t complete it.
We are left empty and wanting.
Yet this man knows when it is said it is done. And what if we had that kind of faith?
We put things into God’s hand, and let Him handle it. We then are free to love and share what He has given us. That my friends is true healing!
So be the centurion! and trust Jesus has all in His hands!
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