Jesus Heals

Sharing with you an excerpt from today’s gospel

A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said,
"If you wish, you can make me clean."Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand,
touched the leper, and said to him,
"I do will it. Be made clean."The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean.

Jesus is so loving and so powerful. In the gospel, we can see that Jesus healed the leper, not only physically but also on the other aspects of his life. Lepers were considered outcasts during those times. They were unclean. People do not touch them, because having contact with them will make a person unclean as well. That’s why they usually have a bell tied to them, so people would know if a leper is coming. I could just imagine how hard it was for the person, that’s why he kneeled down and begged Jesus. He had that faith in Jesus, that He could make him clean… maybe that’s his last resort, he’s in a desperate situation that’s why he clung to Jesus. Kasi wala nang ibang makakatulong sa kanya. No matter where that faith came from, Jesus honoured it, and he cleaned the man. Jesus, by healing the man, brought him back to society – that’s why he asked the man to show himself to the priest, offer to the Lord what is due him, and be declared clean.

Do you believe that God can heal you physically, emotionally, financially and socially? Do you have faith that God can? When helpless, how do you react? Do you cling to God like the man, or do you shun away from him? What’s your attitude in coming to him? Are you proud, asking what you feel you deserve, or are you totally abandoning yourself to his will?

I pray that we come to God with complete abandon, like the leper in the gospel who knows that he is helpless on his own and that only Jesus can help him. And in coming to God, may we have childlike faith, who knows that God our Father will not abandon us and He has our best interest in his heart.