Our paragraph topic is: (A father asks Jesus to cure his son).
After all the questions in the minds of the disciples, they finally understood. They finally had answers. They finally could make some sense of what they had experienced on the mountaintop with Christ. But then there came new questions that needed answers. There came new challenges that required addressing. There came new prayers that needed answers and new requests from the people that followed Christ that needed help.
Many were sick. Many were in pain. Many were without hope. Many were lost and under the possession of evil. Those that had some belief came to Christ. Those that sought help came for help. Those that heard the word were led by the word. And those that sought to destroy the word came for destruction. But Christ knew of their plan. He knew of their desire to destroy him. He knew of the evil that was in the world that did not want the people to turn back to God. So they sought in every way to prevent the people from seeing, hearing, or knowing the truth of Christ.
And when he had come to the crowd, a man approached him and threw himself on his knees before him, saying, "Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic, and suffers severely; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to thy disciples, but they could not cure him."
How often have we called upon God to cure our ills? How often have we asked for help? How often have we prayed to our heavenly father to solve a problem for us that we have not had success with. And then there are those among us who are the disciples of Christ that would give us ways to find solutions. There are those who would tell us all kinds of things that we must do to find help. Do they work? Do we find solutions? Do we believe in what they give us for our ills and our problems? Some do. Some half do. Some don't believe. And some scoff at the thought that these men and women of God can give us the help that we need.
Here was a father who believed that his son was a lunatic. He believed that he had a problem that could be fixed by the modern day solutions that were available to him. After all, he was told by some authority that his son was mad, a lunatic, not of a normal mind. But his love for his son prevailed. For he believed enough, that there was a solution, somewhere, to restore his son to him. He heard the miracles. He heard the stories of the cures. He saw those who were restored and he had hope. He sought the foundation of hope and he sought Christ.
Christ came that we would have salvation. He came that we would have redemption. He came to restore what was lost to man. He came to bring life. So the door is open for many to have life and to have it for eternity. All one has to do is stay away from those things that cause us to sin against God. Yet we live in a world that is of sin. We live in a world where sin is interwoven into our daily fabric of life. We eat, sleep, breathe, see, smell, and taste sin on a daily basis as if it is impossible to do without it. And there is one that can resist. There is one that can turn away. There is one who can help us to be the people that our father wants us to be.
I write this blog as an invitation to those who would read it. This is an invitation to close the door to sin, to open the door to the truth of who you are in Christ. This is an invitation to awake from the sleep of the world and see the light that is within you that you may see yourself as you will be seen and know in heaven. For you were given life, as a spirit, and brought into this world. You are a spiritual being and not a physical person. And when your time has ended in the physical realm you will return to the spiritual being that you are. So, Come! Know the truth of who you are and see the treasure that awaits you. The path was given to me and now I give it to you. Follow the path and you will know the truth of who you are in Christ.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage and then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ. The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
