“But Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and they told Him about her at once” (Mark 1:30-31)
As soon as Jesus was told she was sick, He went to where she lay, healed her, and she immediately served food to the honored guest. Jesus was comfortable with human beings because He was human as well as God. “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).
When we think of Jesus, we normally think, he healed “all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people” (Matthew 4:23), but right now, at this moment, He’s here with you. Are you reluctant to ask Him for things because of your sin? He died for your sin, and was tempted to sin also. “We do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:15-16).
He came to Earth to pay the debt of sin. “When He came into the world, He said: ‘Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come - In the volume of the book it is written of Me - To do Your will, O God' (Hebrews 10:5-7).
The curtain that separated you from God is down. “Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience” (Hebrews 10:19-22).
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