God’s healing power restores us not only to health, but also to active service and care of others.

Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. So, he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them. Luke 4: 38-39.
 
Good morning, happy Wednesday, and many blessings my dear family.
 
In today’s Gospel (Luke 4:38-44), we experience the healing power of Jesus.  After leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to the home of Simon.  When he arrived, Simon’s mother-in-law was very ill with a high fever. When Simon brought Jesus to his home, his mother-in-law was instantly healed and fully restored.  She got up from the bed and began to serve them.
 
At sunset, many people who were ill were brought to Jesus.  They had a variety of diseases.  Jesus laid His hands on each of them and they were cured. ! Demons came out of some of the people, and they began to shout at Jesus: “You are the Son of God!” Jesus firmly rebuked the spirits.  He did not allow them to speak because they recognized that He was the Christ. 
 
People, hearing of his visit, are bringing their sick from the surrounding neighborhood in the hope of a cure. All are delighted, Only the demons are disappointed. His very presence is enough to silence them. Shortly he will leave to bring the good news to other places. He is as truly walking through your life now as he was on that day in Capharnaum. Have the confidence to ask him for whatever you need.
 
At daybreak, Jesus left town to find a deserted and quiet place.  He needed time to rest, pray, and have some solitude.  However, the crowd of people followed Him and tried to prevent Him from leaving.  (Who would not want a healer close by?)  Jesus told the crowd that He must go and proclaim the “good news of the Kingdom.”
 
To whom do you take your troubles?  Do you allow Jesus to be the Lord and Healer in your life, family, and community?  God’s healing power restores us not only to health, but also to active service and care of others.  There is no trouble he does not want to help us with and there is no bondage from which he can’t set us free. 
 
I suggest that you give some time contemplating the gospels of today and yesterday by observing the scene, the characters, see what they were doing, listening what they were saying. Above all, ask yourself what impact Jesus made on you. Having allowed the scene and its characters to imprint themselves on your imagination, you might do two things 1) write a description of your experience of his preaching, his effortless domination of an unclean spirit (Tuesday’s gospel), and 2) pray that you may know Jesus more fully, follow him more closely and love him more deeply.
 
Remember that the imaginative contemplation is not principally intended to keep the mind from wandering or to assist the imagination: its true object is to make one present in spirit at the scenes, persons etc.so that they may really act on us and we on them. In other words, all these mystical experiences do not come into our lives to distance us from the community, on the contrary, they come to bring us closer. The more I walk with the community and make an accompaniment presence, the closer I get to God. By serving the community, I serve God.
 
Blessings,
 
Luis+