“So that they should set their hope in God,
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments” Psalm 78:7b
Do you look forward to listening to His word? Do you go early to Church to prepare yourselves to hear Him? Do you brave all inconveniences and obstacles just to be in His presence? Can we open the roof of our hearts to Him, lower ourselves to Him so that He can fill us with His love?
Christian community prayer is so powerful because when we pray as one, we are in union with our brothers and sisters in heaven praying to God our Father. Hence our faith can lead to the healing of another and we all have in some one way or another been witness to this and yet have we forgotten?
Our deceitfulnes and lies can often wear us down, for we live in constant fear that others are doing likewise against us which then leads to stress and illnesses. Have we not learnt? Sin paralyses us, forces us to remain in deluge and hopelessness, in time we drown in sorrow and anguish. God alone can forgive sins, Jesus is God! He wants to free us from the bondage, our illnesses, why do we not *run* to Him? Do we not know by now that all it takes is for our hearts to cry out to Him?
GOSPEL Mark 2:1–12
1 And when he returned to Caperna-um after some days, it was reported that he was at home. 2 And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them. 3 And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. 4 And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay. 5 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “My son, your sins are forgiven.” 6 Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, 7 “Why does this man speak thus? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 8 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question thus in your hearts? 9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your pallet and walk’? 10 But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic— 11 “I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home.” 12 And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
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