January 22 Remember Who Did It

Remember Who Does It

Mark 1:43-50 Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: 44 "See that you don't tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them." 45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.

WHEN YOU consider all the glorious healings the Gospels record, isn’t it easy to say, “Jesus did it!” Would it not have been easy for him to say, “I did it!”
Instead, Jesus points the healed to the Father. Here he tells the now-clean man to go to the priests. God, the Father, had established laws by which a person would be declared clean to re-enter society. Jesus commanded the man to go and do what God had written in the law of Moses.
When the healed man disobeyed and excitedly told his great news, he pointed the people too much to Jesus and too little to the Father. It caused a disruption in Jesus’ ministry. He had to stay in lonely places, and he could no longer preach the Gospel.
When you minister the Gospel and see God work—always give the praise to God. When you are healed in some way—physically, emotionally, spiritually, economically—never praise a person who has helped you. Instead, thank the godly person who has helped you and praise the Father. Your healing has come, as all things do, in the will of God through the power of the Spirit of God.


Pause and consider how God shows up in your life. Praise him!