Lesson from Luke
Tonight I was reading some from the Bible when my yearly reading plan lead me to Luke 10. Before I began reading I asked God to open my heart and allow me to grasp something new, to have a fire kindled into flame as I read the passages. While I ask this often enough, I find myself struggling more often than not to believe that something will happen. As I was reading the first moment of my dialog with God started when I read:
Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
(Luke 10:9)
Not a big verse, nothing too unusual about it, right? Yes, that is absolutely true, except I was imagining myself taking Christ’s charge for myself and following through with it. I could see myself packing my favorite bag with my toiletries, my Bible, a journal and not much else. But, when it came time to heal the sick, I didn’t know what to imagine. In one image that flashed in my mind I was laying hands on a hurt child and praying. In the next image, I wasn’t praying but wrapping a wound with gauze. I began to think about it, and how healing was often accomplished through prayer and miracle, until we got too smart for God and turned to our own knowledge for healing, and that is what my mind defaults too. I also thought of videos I have seen of people going into an amusement park and praying for healing for people, and my skeptical mind looks at what happens as I doo the latest David Blaine special where I look to see how it was done, to figure out the “magic”. At this point I feel god helped me a bit with this hang up I have had for a while because in my mind I heard the thought “How is it you can read of Christ’s miracles and accept it, believe that he gave his disciples the power to cast out demons and heal others, but when it comes to people in this day and age doing the same thing you cannot believe it could be God?” (I think this is what it was, it is the right idea if nothing else, but I cannot think of the exact phrasing). With that simple thought, I wanted to be praying for the healing of the child, not just wrapping the wound in gauze, I wanted to be praying over my uncle’s cancer, but more importantly praying with him about Christ, and how he died to save us from our sins. So, I have this revelation then continue reading and come to this:
And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
(Luke 10:18-20)
I am claiming these verses, and will be memorizing them and writing them on my heart. Satan shall fall. Christ has empowered us and nothing shall hurt us. The spirits are subject to us. But all of this means so little when compared to the FACT that God has saved my soul, my name is written in heaven!
Thank you God, I can not earn this no matter how long or hard i try, I will never make myself worthy of what you are giving me. Thank You!
Now I am off to finish my reading, I got so excited I had to stop and write this 🙂
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