"Your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing." - 2 Thessalonians 1:3b

Friday, October 19, 2012

Matthew 15 The World Right Side Up


by Jill Ice

Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there. And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.
Matthew 15:29-31

“The miracles of Jesus are signs of the right order of things. Jesus was not so much turning things upside down as turning them right side up or, at least, giving his followers glimpses of the right side up. The miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, and resurrection all reveal that God, through Jesus, is making all things new, that he is restoring what once was unbroken.”
-from The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler

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