Text: (Mark 2:1-12) Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. {4} Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on… He said to the paralytic, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.” {He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
“We’ve never seen anything like this.”
The Lord has something in store for all of us in 2021 that will leave each of us saying, “I have never seen anything like this before.” Encounters with Him small and great that will leave us wonder-struck and searching for ways to describe it. Because that same Jesus lives in each of us by His Spirit.
Last week I talked about glory and how we’ve been blessed with surpassing glory. And my focus was on our relationship with Christ through our individual interaction with Him.
There is another essential way the Lord wants to reveal His glory to us in a way we’ve never seen before. And that is through the care and support of others He has placed in our lives.
This man couldn’t bring himself to Jesus. His friends went out of their way to help him. Jesus often cares for us through other people.
1 Corinthians 12 We ARE a body. We are members of one another.
We are more than the “uniforms” we wear. We wear the appropriate emotional attire to work, to school to other places. Unfortunately, we often feel compelled to wear our “Good Christian” uniforms to church.
But the church isn’t a place where we impress one another with our faith but where we get our faith serviced and maintained
God often reveals His glory in our neediness and provides deliverance and comfort through others.
Jesus Himself needed support from His disciples: “You are those who have stood by me in my trials.” (Luke 22:28).
The Scripture tells us to pray for one another, to encourage each other, to build one another up, to fervently love one another. Because that is one of the ways God shows up in our lives and shows us things we’ve never seen before.
Get ready for something you’ve never seen before. Get ready to give and receive in His name. Get ready to be His instrument of glory in someone else’s life and to experience His glory through others.
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