To Home we go ... Mark 1:29-34

vs 29 "After Jesus left the synagogue with James and John, they went to Simon and Andrew's home.   Now Simon's mother-in-law was sick in bed with a high fever."

You know, there are books that you think you've read several times, and then all of a sudden you realized that you had before just 'browsed', instead of trying to understand.   This was the home of Andrew and Peter (called Simon at the time), and Simon's mother-in-law was sick, and living in the same house.   Simon was married, and tradition claims that his wife was eventually martyred for her faith, and they did have children.   For some reason we tend to forget (or at least I do) that these disciples had families, homes, and some even were married.  

In Luke's gospel 4:38-41 it states that Simon's mother-in-law was very sick with a 'high fever'  and He rebukes the spirit and the fever is gone.

In Marks gospel, Jesus sits her up on her bed, and the fever leaves her.   Either way, she is healed by Jesus, and the word of Christ's healing's in the area spread.   He healed many who were filled with diseases and demon possessed right there in Simon's house.

I think about our culture in North America, and how pessimistic people are when we hear of miracles being done.   Some of it is justified, considering how many fake healers can be seen on television, but where do we stand on miracles?   We are a drug induced culture, we like our medications, and most of the time I tend to go with an aspirin or advil first instead of getting down on my knees to ask God for healing and help. 

Christ did an amazing thing in the synagogue, and in Simon's house, and I'm wondering if my heart has become so hardened by 'fake miracle workers' that no matter how sick I was, would I be the one to make the trek on that day to Simon & Andrew's house back then?    If I truly believe that the same Christ who healed way back then, it truly alive in me through the Holy Spirit, and through others ... should we not also see miracles happen?   Or maybe they do happen, ALOT, and we don't acknowledge them as miracles, and God's work happening in us?   

This is why I love the Word of God, because it makes us think, and examine ourselves ... even when sometimes we don't like to be examined.

Take this day as a miracle, don't hold back God from performing a miracle in your life today.