Scripture: Mark 2:9 "Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven'; or to say, 'Arise, and take up your pallet and walk.'"
OAP: Your friends want you (the paralytic healed)...so their de-roof someone's home, and lower you through the ceiling. Jesus, amazed at your belief in Him doesn't heal but instead forgives your sins.
Oh Boy Jesus...Thanks...I feel all warm and tingly inside? And this is my struggle. Which is more tangible? The miracle within, or the miracle of walking? I find the other one so much more dazzling? I know I'm depraved, but I don't think I know how much.
I don't think I fully get "how far short of God's glory" I am. I sell short what it means to be forgiven of my wrongs. To not have a record held against me...to have the slate wiped clean. And when I make light of this, it affects my outlook on a lot of other things. The importance of Jesus' words apart from what He did. The purpose of the bible and prayer apart from the practical. I am too satisfied with the tangible world.
God I have taken your many blessings in this life, and switched the order with the most important one of all...Your grace. I'm afraid the only way to get this reversed is to have everything tangible taken away. I don't want that. Is there another way? Does getting God and valuing the things He does require You to give up everything else? The more I think about it, the more I realize how much I want my comfort and the things I have around me...my computer to blog, my bed to sleep in, my house, and my wife...What would be left of me if these things were gone? Thank you for these blessings, forgive me for misplacing the forgiveness you give at the bottom of the pile.
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