Lord... if you will.
A devotional on Matthew 8:2 In verse 2 of the 8 th Chapter of the gospel of Matthew we are told of a man who had leprosy who approached Jesus. The man comes to Jesus and says “Lord if you will you can make me clean.” Now if you look carefully this is a prayer, a very short prayer but a prayer nonetheless. And much like every other prayer this prayer too cannot be looked at in a vacuum but must be understood with the whole volume of context that it carries. The most obvious layer of context that we are given is that the man had leprosy. We must immediately understand that leprosy then was very different from leprosy now. Today a leper is merely someone who unfortunately contracted a miserable sickness. It can relegate a person to a secluded and painful life or maybe to a life on the streets as a beggar. On our way to work every morning, my wife and I drive through this particular crossing where there sits a wonderful and loving old man. His eyes are filled with love and joy...