In communication, you need a message, a messenger, and a receiver. In this story, Jesus had a message for the Jewish Priests, and He would use a healed leper as a messenger. But the message never got there. The military wins battles based on good communication. When that communication fails, so does the mission.
When the leper approached Jesus and said, “If you are willing, You can make me clean”, Jesus was moved with compassion and said, “I am willing, be cleansed.” I imagine at that point Jesus was thinking of His people Israel. How He loved them and wished to cleanse them and redeem them. How He wished they would come to Him and ask Him to heal them of their ways.
Jesus decided to send them this message, that He was willing to cleanse them. He would send this leper to the priests as a testimony of what He desired to do for them. So He sternly told the leper, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” However, the messenger did not go to the priests. Instead, he told everyone freely; to such an extent that Jesus could no longer enter cities, but had to stay in unpopulated areas.
In this story, the messenger failed to deliver the message. In the next section, we will see how the receivers, the Jewish religious leaders, would reject the message.
Jesus has a message for you. He loves you, He desires to redeem you from your sinful ways and restore you to your place in His kingdom. Sometimes messengers sabotage that message. People have hurt us, church has let us down, and bad things have happened to us. All these things might have given us a false picture of who Jesus is and distorted His message to us.
Sometimes we need to shoot the messenger. The messenger has messed up the message. Don’t let a bad messenger keep you from experiencing the compassion of Jesus toward you.
Jesus has a message for you. In the gospel of Mark, Jesus shares this message. Here is one instance…
“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45
Father, thank you for Your message of love to me.
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