Gospel
Mark 1:40-45
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. Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once.
Then he said to him, “See that you tell no one anything, but go, show yourself
to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be
proof for them.” The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He
spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town
openly. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to him
from everywhere.
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Reflection:
What
moves you to go to Jesus?
The leper
went to Jesus knelled down and begged Jesus by saying, “If you wish, you can
make me clean.” And immediately the leper was healed by Jesus. You may ask,
what moved the leper to ask Jesus to heal him?
Was it
his grave sickness? No, his leprosy is not the driving force that moved him to
seek the help of Jesus. It was something far bigger than his sickness and it
was the leper’s deep reservoir of faith in Jesus! Otherwise if he does not have
faith he wouldn’t have went to Jesus.
And what drove Jesus to heal the leper? Was it His leprosy? No it was
not his leprosy that moved Jesus to heal him. It was the leper’s great faith in
Him!
What
brings us to Jesus and why do we pray to Jesus? Do we pray to Jesus because of
our problems? Are we doing this because of our sickness? Our sickness and our
problems must not be the primary reason why we go in prayer to Jesus. It must
always be our deep faith in Him!
Let us
always see to it that our faith is always the main driving force why we want to
commune with Jesus. For the reason that the more that we are driven by faith to
go to Jesus. The bigger our chance of being heard by Him.
What
moves you to pray to Jesus? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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