We all need help!

We all need help!

None of us are really self made or completely independent! We need help in one way or another.

Mark 2:1-12

Here we see a man who desperately needed help. Spiritually we are just as helpless. We are blind and crippled spiritually!

Jesus knew this man wanted physically healing but Jesus knew what he needed. Jesus saw the bigger issue in this mans life!

To Jesus telling the man to walk was easier than forgiving sin. To us we think the exact opposite. We focus one the physical issues in our lives and neglect the more important spiritual things.

When we realize we need help, we will do what ever it takes to get that help! This paralytic did what ever it took to find healing. His faith in Jesus knew that if he could just meet Jesus he would find healing.

This man would not have gone through what he went through to see Jesus if he did not believe that Jesus had the power to heal him!

In many ways this paralytic was lucky that he had a need that he could see. Jesus will give us all the help we need but he never made it easy. We have to be willing to do what ever it takes to be with Jesus!

Jesus is the source of the saving power in this story but this man needed the help of others around him to reach that power. Today many religious people acknowledge the saving power of Jesus but refuse to allow other people to help them get to that power. Getting to Jesus is not something we can do on our own. We need help. God uses people around us to help us reach him.

Am I humble enough to allow people to help me?! Admitting that I need help is the first step!