It’s a part of life that, on occasion, we encounter obstacles of one kind or another; things that we must work through as we journey toward a goal. In these times, it is tempting to lose sight of our goal and to give up on it.
In today’s Gospel passage, the friends of a paralyzed man wanted to get him to Jesus, but they found that other people were blocking their way. Instead of giving up or turning back, they found a way around the crowd, climbing up onto a roof with their friend and lowering him down through the tiles before Jesus. Jesus was very taken by their faith, by the persistence of their faith.
Here was a small community of faith — the paralytic and his friends — that kept their focus on the LORD as they journeyed toward Him, intent on reaching Him despite the obstacles and challenges they encountered along the way.
In many ways this small community of faith can be an inspiration for us this Advent season when we are called to keep journeying towards the LORD, to keep our focus on Him despite whatever obstacles may be at work in our lives that could keep us from the Him. Jesus surprised them all by first saying to the man, “As for you, your sins are forgiven.” The paralytic needed spiritual as well as physical healing and his spiritual healing took priority.
As we keep our focus on the LORD this Advent, let us look to Him for our own spiritual healing.+
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