He Touched Me — Food for Thought

I have a few more of Jesus’ Demands, to post about. And I have another post or two in the works. But I need to get this Christmas tree put together! It has been so busy around here, it seems.

Well, I want to get a post up today, so let me provide two quotes from a really good post by someone else, and encourage you to use your blogging time reading it. The article is another “Images of the Savior” post by my friend Nathan Pitchford. This one concerns Jesus’ cleansing of a leper in Mk. 1:41-42. The excerpts I’ll provide below should hopefully encourage you to go read the whole thing. (He just posted another “Image of the Savior” today, too. So check that one out as well.) Anyways, here goes.

And then, we may also learn much of the evil-conquering purity of Christ from this account. For consider how overpowering a thing was evil, as Moses’ law testified. For the one who was unclean, when he touched a person who was clean, did not thereby become clean — no, quite the opposite, for both alike became unclean (Haggai 2:11-14). Indeed so powerful was the corrupting influence of sin’s impurity, that he who was a leper was required to withdraw far from his brothers, and to cry out at all times, “Unclean!” lest they, through accidental contact, should contract the same defilement (Numbers 5:2-3; Leviticus 13:45-46). But this leper came straight to Jesus, seeking mercy; and Jesus was not loth to reach out and touch him! And so marvelous is the unspotted purity of our Savior, and so powerful is he over sin and death, that he did not become unclean; but rather, the leper became pure, and was cleansed from all the disfiguring effects of sin in his body. So will it ever be with him who touches Jesus. There is much truth to meditate upon in this exceptional circumstance….

There is no doubt that, to the extent that we see in ourselves the same desperate needs as we see in these hopeless wretches to which Christ revealed his power and compassion, to that extent only will we be blessed and comforted by these stories of the wonderful works of Christ. If we see ourselves as pure and healthy already, we will be little moved by this account of Christ’s dealings with a miserable leper. But if we see that we are indeed leprous, and even worse than he, leprous on the inside, and impure in the heart — then we will find no end of delight in meditating upon the amazing qualities of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, so mightily displayed as he walked on this earth some two thousand years ago….

Don’t forget! Read the whole thing!


∼striving for the unity of the faith for the glory of God∼ Eph. 4:3,13 “¢ Rom. 15:5-7

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