Bring Them to Jesus
Recently, someone gave a devotion on the paralytic man (Luke 5:17-24). It opened my eyes to the story in a way that I had never thought about it before. First, I thought about how much faith the friends of the paralytic man must have had, they overcame every obstacle to get their friend to Jesus, because they believed He would heal him. I am not sure if they still would have done this if they had less faith, but ripping up the roof of a house to get someone to Jesus is pretty determined. Secondly, I thought about the application for my life right now. I imagine that however difficult it was to get to Jesus, it was easier then, because he was there physically, but now I wonder, how can I bring people to Jesus? As I was thinking about this question during the devotional they said the way that I can do this is through prayer. When they said that I was like “Oh, yeah! That makes perfect sense!” But then I thought, how many times do I try to fix the person before bringing them to Jesus...