Gospel: Luke
5:12-16
It
happened that there was a man full of leprosy in one of the towns where Jesus
was; and when he saw Jesus, he fell prostrate, pleaded with him, and said, “Lord,
if you wish, you can make me clean.” Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him,
and said, “I do will it. Be made clean.” And the leprosy left him immediately. Then
he ordered him not to tell anyone, but “Go, show yourself to the priest and
offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them.” The
report about him spread all the more, and great crowds assembled to listen to
him and to be cured of their ailments, but he would withdraw to deserted places
to pray.
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Reflection:
How do
you ask Jesus when you want something from Him?
In today’s
gospel we have a man sick with leprosy; he told the Lord, if you wish, you can
make me clean (Luke 5:12).” Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and
said, “I do will it. Be made clean.” And the leprosy left him immediately (Luke
5:13).
The man
sick with leprosy got what he wanted from Jesus for the reason that he humbled
himself before Him. He did not only humble himself before Jesus, he also
mustered enough courage to approach Jesus even if he was sick with a very contagious
disease.
To have
leprosy during that time was to have a dreaded disease, a sickness that isolate’s
a person from the company of others. But it did not prevent the man sick with
leprosy from going to Jesus, his sickness even fuelled him to go to Jesus.
Where do you go when you are sick? Do you first go in prayer to Jesus and ask for His healing before
going to somebody who could cure you?
Sickness is
part and parcel of our life, for as long as we live we will also get sick.
Therefore when we are sick let us not forget to first go in prayer to Jesus.
Let us approach Jesus with humility and total surrender.
In
sickness and in health in good times and in bad let us always humbly go to
Jesus. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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