BECOMING WHOLE
Read: John 5:1-9
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Will you recover? -John 5:6
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Readings for One Year: 1 Chronicles 25-27 • John 89:1-23
Novels of John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath (Grapes wrath), begins with a scene in the drought-stricken Oklahoma during the Great Depression (Great Depression destroy the economy of countries including the United States). When the harvest of agricultural land is dying and covered in dust, the women watched their husbands to see if they would crumble under the pressure. When he saw the fighting spirit of their husbands, these women were strengthened. Steinbeck wrote, the women and children know in their hearts that no misfortune was too great to bear, if their husbands have the integrity of the liver. The problem is not in happiness, prosperity, or satisfaction, but wholeness. This is a great need for us all.
In the Bible King James Version, the word "integrity of heart" is often used to illustrate the work of Jesus about physical healing. When Jesus met a man who has been paralyzed for 38 years, he asked "Would you be cured?" (John 5:6). After healing the man, Jesus challenged him also that he experienced a spiritual wholeness. "You have been recovered: sin no more. So that you do not happen that much worse" (ay.14).
If we just wanted something that could be Jesus for us, our relationship with Him will be limited. When we want to Jesus, He will give you perfection in our lives. Above all, Christ wants us to form a whole person. -DCM
I am grateful to You for Your precious Word
Where You made me see
I am a sinful, helpless soul,
That in the intact right back with a trust-thy-sperm.
--- Only Jesus can give wholeness of life to collapse ---
