Evening: Psalms 124, 125, 126; Matthew 9:1-8
In Jesus’ day some thought illness was punishment for our alienation from God (or ‘sin’) … some still do. Did Jesus affirm this perverse idea? Jesus would say sin has devastating consequences; but that it is very different from seeing paralysis as punishment. Jesus’ life was about the healing that comes when we turn our lives around to receive forgiveness. Healing, therefore, may mean no longer believing that God punishes sin by inflicting suffering. There is already too much suffering in the world. God does not want to break us but make us whole.
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