Mark 1:25-45 Jesus continues His ministry, speaking in synagoges and healing people of various diseases. Then He comes upon this man with leprosy, who said “If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.” The man puts his faith in Jesus, and Jesus out of compassion heals him. When the man is healed, Jesus tells the man to go to the priest, and give the offering required by the law, and that would be a public testimony that he had been cleansed.
The guy was so excited to be rid of his leprosy, he didn’t do what Jesus asked, instead he told everyone FIRST. Soon, Jesus was neck deep in people asking for miracles, that He couldn’t get away from him. Like kids finding out that Santa is just down the street, people were constantly around him. Jesus couldn’t even find a secluded spot to have some time alone with God, or even to rest.
Now if the man who was healed from leprosy had done as Jesus asked in the first place, what would of happened? People would hear a legitimate claim of the healing, not only from the man himself, but from the priest … and in turn, even more people would of heard of Jesus’ healing, and who knows how this would of affected the religious leaders at the time.
Jesus would also have had time to get to other places, and perform miracles, and continue His testimony, and have time to spend alone if needed.
Sometimes we get so bogged down in our emotions, that we forget to follow God’s leading on our heart, don’t we?
If we pray for money, and as an answer to prayer, we get more than we need, do we use it to buy something we really don’t need, or do was ask God how we can bless someone with it? If we get healed from some ailment, do we just tell our family, or do we testify of God’s healing in our Churches? It’s about what we do with the blessings that God gives out to us, it’s part of being a “good and faithful servant”.
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