I check on the internet for illustrations to go into my Sunday messages, and a couple of weeks ago I found this one that I wanted to forward to you...
How can you know when you have been healed? Seems like an odd question. For many, the answer is obvious: when the pain is gone, the fever has come down, and the disease is no more. But the Gospel gives a better answer. “The fever left her,” we are told of Peter’s mother-in-law, “and she began to serve them.” As she was healed, she immediately began to serve others. When we are ready to help others in their need and focus once again outside ourselves we will know that we too have been cured. We will no longer be slaves to our hurts and resentments. We will at last be made whole. And we shall live. (This illustration was written by Frank Hegedus.)
Perhaps, being made whole, being truly healed, means that we reach a point in our faith where we reach out to others. We help others who are suffering. We help others who are lost. Perhaps, in this sense, being made whole refers to being made into the image of Jesus.
A little more simplistic view, when we become more other-person-centered than we are self-centered, we are whole.
What do you think? Share your opinion...
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