Lepers in my world Part 2

Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” (Mark 1:41 NLT)  

In response to the leper's request to be healed and cleansed, Jesus willingly does three things:

1) Jesus reached out. In the leper's world people don't reach out. They recoil. People don't move toward lepers, they move away. But Jesus is different. Jesus reached out.

2) Jesus touched him. The holy, holy, holy touched the unclean, unclean, unclean. He didn't just give a glance or write a check. He put his skin onto the leper's skin. When was the last time that leper had felt another's touch?

3) Jesus spoke. He said two things. First: "I am willing." Nothing obligated the Son of God to help this son of man. Nothing, except that Jesus was willing to be "moved with compassion." Second, since compassion prompts action, Jesus says, "Be healed." The power of the Holy God met the weakness of the unclean man and everything changed.


Read part one.
Read part three.