14When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. 15He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.
16When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. 17This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
“He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases." (Matthew 8)
Thoughts: These words were written that we might listen to them. Listen to the power in them. Listen to the love and response in love in them. Jesus heals and the woman gets up and serves. Evil and sickness are driven out. This is a foretaste of heaven- where there will be no evil, no sickness, no tears or sorrow. Jesus brings hope and joy and a reminder of what God can do. We forget and too often think we are left here on our own. We to often think evil, temptation are too strong We say, "This is just the way I am" or "This is just the way it is" as we give into sin and temptation. Jesus took our infirmities up- and threw them away. He bore our diseases.
There was a Marvel comic movie where the hero (Ironman) took the nuclear bomb headed toward New York out into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He was bearing the evil away. The suspense was whether he could make it back or not- and he did. Jesus takes our evil away and makes it back. He carries our sorrows, our infirmities and diseases away from us.
Prayer: Lord, help me to look to you- to listen to your power to bear my infirmities away. Keep me from self reliance.
“He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases." (Matthew 8)
Thoughts: These words were written that we might listen to them. Listen to the power in them. Listen to the love and response in love in them. Jesus heals and the woman gets up and serves. Evil and sickness are driven out. This is a foretaste of heaven- where there will be no evil, no sickness, no tears or sorrow. Jesus brings hope and joy and a reminder of what God can do. We forget and too often think we are left here on our own. We to often think evil, temptation are too strong We say, "This is just the way I am" or "This is just the way it is" as we give into sin and temptation. Jesus took our infirmities up- and threw them away. He bore our diseases.
There was a Marvel comic movie where the hero (Ironman) took the nuclear bomb headed toward New York out into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He was bearing the evil away. The suspense was whether he could make it back or not- and he did. Jesus takes our evil away and makes it back. He carries our sorrows, our infirmities and diseases away from us.
Prayer: Lord, help me to look to you- to listen to your power to bear my infirmities away. Keep me from self reliance.
(Peter's mother-in-law's house- Capernaum)
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