Book: Luke

Life has a way of being disrupted by one thing or another. Something comes up, catches us off guard, and we wait for that thing to be over so we can get on with life. What if we responded differently to these inevitable distractions? Like the shepherds disrupted by the news of Jesus’s birth, we can listen and look to God and tell others about the distractions in our life and what God is doing.

As we read this miracle of Jesus’s in the last message of this series, we reflect on the connection between leprosy in the Bible and our own sinful natures. Both begin from within, cannot be hidden, and separate us from others. But, Jesus overcame both leprosy and sin for us. We can have faith that Jesus is willing to help us in the process and command to “be clean!”

Just as Jesus restored sight to a blind man in the Bible, Jesus can restore our vision for the future today. Without vision, we get distracted and lost, blocked by sin. Jesus can give us hope, vision, and purpose again.

Jesus is willing to go to extreme measures for you. Through the miracles he performed, we can see that death does not have the final say, our stories are not finished, and that Jesus still does miracles in our lives and world today.

Have you ever felt like you missed an opportunity or the “right time” to do something? Let’s look at the example of Jesus and Simon Peter to learn about God’s timing for us.

Being lost isn’t a place, it’s separation from home and the “right place.” When we lose love, lose ground, or feel like a lost cause, let us be found by Jesus.

Miracles don’t prove or disprove God’s existence to others – how we interpret miracles is dependent on our perspective and attitude. Faith believes in what is not seen, is constructed on truth, and isn’t determined by experience or circumstance. When we believe that God can do miracles, and that God is good to do miracles in our lives, we will see God working around us more and more.