Carl wrote:
>
> The following comes from J. Vernon McGee's commentary on the book of
Luke. I
> found his information to be quite moving. I don't think I can imagine
what
> it is like to be isolated like lepers were in those times. I know my
wife
> and I are very close and the rare times we are separated by distance for
> multiple days at a time (ex. - a business trip), my heart yearns for her
and
> I miss her. And it's joyous when she returns. My feelings are tiny
compared
> to the heartbreak a leper in those days must have felt when he would
only be
> able to watch his family from a distance, knowing he would never be able
to
> be with them ever again. So the joy the leper healed must have been so
great
> as to be almost unimaginable. God today can heal our hearts from the
> figurative leprousy known as sin. We, like the leper, need to have faith
in
> Him.
>
> May God bless,
> Carl
> my website -- http://www.nettally.com/saints/
> my blog -- http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/
>
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>
> JESUS CLEANSES THE LEPER
One has to smile at the scenario......
...........we have one claimed to be the son of a god that
created the entire universe, our world and we humans and
every living thing on this earth. And this son comes along,
sees a leper and cures him.
Now why on earth one leper? Why not all the lepers, the
scourge of society in those days?
Well, I will give you the plain answer.....
The storey is legend, mythology. Had writer claimed Jesus
cured all the lepers he knew it would only be a matter of
time before a leper came over the brow of the nearest hill
to shatter his ludicrous claim.
One Leper? No problem !
How stupid these old fables are; even more stupid are those
contem****ary humans, educated one's at that, who still
swallow these ridiculous old stories; hook liner and sinker.
bob
humanist
You never see animals going through the absurd and often
horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves
with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay
for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent
enough.
[Aldous Leonard Huxley]
> by J. Vernon McGee
>
> And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of
> leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying
Lord,
> if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
> And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou
clean.
> And immediately the leprosy departed from him [Luke 5:12-13].
>
> In verses 12-15 we have the story of the healing of a leper. Luke was a
good
> doctor. He recognized a psychological implication in the healing of this
> leper that was not much understood in that day.
>
> We are not told how the man discovered that he had leprosy, but it could
> have happened in the following manner. One day he came in from plowing
and
> said to his wife, "I have a little sore on the palm of my hand. It
bothers
> me when I am plowing. Could you put a poultice on it and wrap it for
me?"
> His wife bandaged his hand, but the next day the sore was worse. In a
few
> days they both became alarmed. His wife said, "You should go to the
priest."
> He went to the priest who put him in isolation for fourteen days. When
he
> was brought out the priest looked him over and found the leprosy had
spread.
> The priest told him he was a leper. The heartbroken man said to the
priest
> "Let me go to my wife and children and tell them goodbye." The priest
> replied, "You cannot tell them goodbye. You will never be able to take
your
> lovely wife in your arms again. You will never be able to put your arms
> around those precious children of yours." The man went off, alone. His
> family brought his food to a certain place and then withdrew when he
came to
> get it. In the distance he could see his wife and observe his children
> growing day by day.
>
> Then one day the Lord Jesus Christ came by. The leper declared, "If You
> will, You can heal me." The King of kings replied, "I will, be thou
clean."
> But notice how the Lord healed him. He put forth His hand and touched
this
> man afflicted with leprosy. This poor man had not felt anyone's touch
for
> years. Can you imagine what it must have meant to him to have the touch
of
> Christ's hand upon him?
>
> Has the Lord Jesus touched your life? There are so many lives that need
to
> be touched. If you are His, and you are fi****ng at His command, I am
> confident that you can reach someone for the Lord. You need to reach out
> your hand and touch some soul whom only you can touch for Him today.
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