“Take courage, son, your sins are forgiven.” (Matthew 9:2)
Someone might not think there was anything strange about the words that Jesus spoke here — except that they were spoken to a man who was paralyzed! Some people brought this man, paralyzed and laying on a bed, to Jesus. It was obvious to most people what his biggest problem was: of course it must be his paralysis! He couldn’t work; he couldn’t function as a normal person in any way. Surely the most important thing you could do for him would be to heal him physically. And yet that is NOT what Jesus addressed in his life first. Continue reading
