""I will; be thou clean."" 
              — Mark 1:41

Primeval darkness heard the Almighty fiat, ""light be,"" and straightway
light was, and the word of the Lord Jesus is equal in majesty to that
ancient word of power. Redemption like Creation has its word of might.
Jesus speaks and it is done. Leprosy yielded to no human remedies, but
it fled at once at the Lord’s ""I will."" The disease exhibited no
hopeful signs or tokens of recovery, nature contributed nothing to its
own healing, but the unaided word effected the entire work on the spot
and for ever. The sinner is in a plight more miserable than the leper;
let him imitate his example and go to Jesus, ""beseeching him and
kneeling down to him."" Let him exercise what little faith he has, even
though it should go no further than ""Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst
make me clean""; and there need be no doubt as to the result of the
application. Jesus heals all who come, and casts out none. In reading
the narrative in which our morning’s text occurs, it is worthy of
devout notice that Jesus touched the leper. This unclean person had
broken through the regulations of the ceremonial law and pressed into
the house, but Jesus so far from chiding him broke through the law
himself in order to meet him. He made an interchange with the leper,
for while he cleansed him, he contracted by that touch a Levitical
defilement. Even so Jesus Christ was made sin for us, although in
himself he knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in him. O that poor sinners would go to Jesus, believing in the power
of his blessed substitutionary work, and they would soon learn the
power of his gracious touch. That hand which multiplied the loaves,
which saved sinking Peter, which upholds afflicted saints, which crowns
believers, that same hand will touch every seeking sinner, and in a
moment make him clean. The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He
loves, he looks, he touches us, WE LIVE.

On this day...

• Willing God's Will As a Way of Knowing Christ's Word - 2011
• De Profundis - 2010
• Obedience to the Commission - 2010
• Spiritually at war - 2010
• Teaching your kids to love the world or love God? - 2010
• Transformation is Creative - 2009
• Books By James MacDonald - 2009
• Zechariah 3:1 - 2008
• Spiritually Worthy - 2008
• Lamentations 3:58 - 2008