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Mark 1:29–39 (NRSV)
As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once.
He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up.
Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.
That evening, at sundown, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons.
And the whole city was gathered around the door.
And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.
And Simon and his companions hunted for him.
When they found him, they said to him, “Everyone is searching for you.”
He answered, “Let us go on to the neighboring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do.”
And he went throughout Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons.
INTRODUCTION
THE SAINTED PRIEST, ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO, IS CREDITED WITH ONE OF MY FAVORITE PRAYERS THAT IS AT
ONCE A COMMENTARY ON TIME, AND HOW WE AS HUMANS USE OUR TIME, HOW WE AS
HUMANS DEDICATE AND REDEDICATE OURSELVES TO GOD’S MISSION FOR OUR LIVES…THIS IS IN PART THAT
PRAYER CALLED, A STEP ALONG THE WAY, BELOVEDS:
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
This is what we are about.
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We
provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of
liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.
It may be
incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do
the rest.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder
and the worker.
We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
We are prophets of a future
not our own.
Amen
LIVING OUT OUR FAITH EVENTUALLY REVEALS WE ALL HAVE LIMITS......THIS DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE ANY LESS
FAITHFUL, BUT IT DOES MEAN WE COME INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE DIVINE SEEKING ALWAYS THE WISDOM TO
CHOOSE AND USE OUR BEST MOMENTS TO SERVE THE LORD OUR GOD.....
WE REDEEM OUR TIME AS WE REALIZE WE CAN’T SAY YES TO EVERYTHING....WE REDEEM OUR TIME WHEN WE’RE
ABLE TO SAY YES TO ALL THAT HONORS GOD, AND ALL THAT ADVANCES THE GOSPEL IN OUR LIVES AND IN THE
LIVES OF OTHERS.......
IN A SECTION OF JEFF SHINABARGER’S BOOK, YES OR NO, CALLED DECISIONS CHANGE EVERYTHING.....HE
REMINDS READERS OF THIS POWERFUL TRUISM ABOUT HOW WE SPEND OUR TIME BASED ON OUR DECISIONS…
HE WROTE:
IT’S AMAZING HOW 2 WORDS HAVE THE ABILITY TO CHANGE EVERYTHING; YES OR NO.
MOST DECISIONS
ULTIMATELY COME DOWN TO THE MOMENT WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO SAY YES OR CHOOSE TO SAY NO.
I
BELIEVE THE WORDS YES AND NO ARE THE MOST POWERFUL WORDS IN THE DICTIONARY.
THEY DEFINE
WHAT WE LOVE, WHAT WE WILL BE KNOWN FOR, AND WHAT WE WILL DO WITH OUR LIVES.
THESE WORDS
CAN BOTH OPEN DOORS TO NEW PLACES AND CLOSE DOORS TO OLD SPACES.
YES AND NO BEGIN NEW
STORIES AND END OLD PLOT LINES.
THEY ARE DEFINITIVE WORDS: WORDS THAT SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGE
THE TRAJECTORY OF LIFE.
EMBEDDED IN OUR TEXT THIS MORNING IS OUR SAVIOR JESUS, SHOWING US THE POWER OF LIVING OUT HIS YES
AND HIS NO TO THE DISCIPLES WHO ARE SEEKING TO ENGAGE HIM AND HIS TIME, ENERGY AND HEALING POWER....
ONE COMMENTATOR ON THE TEXT WROTE OF OUR LORD JESUS:
He had no slack time; He had no intervals of ease; He had no holidays from service.
Our Lord had an abiding
sense of the urgency and pressure of life.
JESUS’ LESSON HERE IN ST.
MARK ON RESPONDING WITH YES OR NO
JASON RAYNOR REMINDS US IN HIS BOOK, REDEEMING YOUR TIME THAT JESUS PRIORITIZED HIS TIME WITH THE
FATHER ABOVE ANYTHING ELSE IN HIS LIFE AND HE REFERS THE READER TO 2 BIBLE TEXTS TO PROVE IT, ONE
FROM OUR TEXT THIS MORNING:
THE SECOND FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST.
LUKE:
RAYNOR GOES ON TO CONCLUDE, THAT FOR US SPENDING TIME IN GOD’S WORD IS THE KEYSTONE HABIT THAT
MAKES EVERY OTHER TIME MANAGEMENT PRACTICE EASIER AND MORE EFFECTIVE........
AND YET OUR TEXT GOES ON TO SHOW US JESUS…SAYING YES TO HIS 4 DISCIPLES
AND SIMON PETER’S MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS SICK IN BED WITH FEVER.....JESUS DID NOT ASK HER TO SHOW HOW
MUCH FAITH SHE HAD, HE DID NOT SAY TO HER, “YOUR FAITH WILL MAKE YOU WELL”
NOR DID JESUS PRAY LONG PRAYERS OF HEALING OVER HER BEFORE HIS ACTIONS SHOWED HIS POWER AS A
HEALER......
NO, THE TEXT GOES ON TO SAY: HE TOOK HER BY THE HAND AND LIFTED HER UP........JESUS DIDN’T USE A WORD,
HIS YES WAS HIS ACTION....HIS YES WAS HIS OWN FAITHFULNESS.....HIS YES WAS HIS BOND WITH ST.
PETER’S PAIN
AT SEEING HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW’S SUFFERING WITH THE FEVER.....JESUS TOOK HER BY THE HAND & HEALED HER
IN THAT MOMENT....AMEN?
METHODIST HOSPITAL IN OMAHA NEBRASKA, TELLS OF A PROGRAM OF THERAPUTIC/HEALING TOUCH THAT
HELPS TO STIMULATE RELAXATION AND REDUCE PAIN.....
Chris Nadler, a stroke and melanoma survivor, has been a Methodist regular for the better part of the past
decade.
“I’ve gotten extremely good care,” he said.
“They listen.
They don’t preach.
Every facet I’ve had
with them has been wonderful.”
After a recent diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, Chris experienced varying
degrees of pain following two cardiac ablations and having a pacemaker implanted, including “severe
pain” after a catheter ablation in May.
But instead of relying on pain medication alone, the 62-year-old
Council Bluffs man trusted a nurse to complete a Healing Touch treatment – a nonpharmacological
approach to pain management that Methodist offers.
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