Do You Want To Be Healed?

• I wonder how many of us have gotten so comfortable being sick that we’ve started decorating our prison cell >> so it’ll feel more like a living room. >> How comfortable are you being sick? Do you want to get completely well? Because to be completely well, it’ll change everything. Do you want to be well? Stick a finger in Luke and head backwards to ma uh Mark’s gospel.
• Mark chapter 2. Another very familiar encounter Jesus has with some uppidity Pharisees. He went out again beside the sea. This is Mark chapter 2 beginning in verse 15. And all the crowd was coming to him. And he was teaching them. And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alfaas sitting at the tax booth.
• And he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples. For there were many who followed him, the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to be his disciples, they said, “Why does he eat with sinners and tax collectors?” When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.” I came not to
• call the righteous, but sinners. Underneath that question, which is irony, underneath that question was, “What’s more important to you? Healing or comfort?” >> Okay. Okay. Because often times for a mature Christ follower who recognizes neediness as a spiritual necessity, deep healing does cause discomfort >> because it means we have to acknowledge I’m sick.