Living Among Lepers

“And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him...And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.” I fear some of us have gotten too refined for this life on earth. True, a saint is a mixture of the Divine and human, but the human is never anything but human. God chose to reach humanity by indwelling the human. This is seen in the Incarnation.

You can always spot the “holier than thou” crowd. You’ll hear such statements as “How could anyone do something like that?” or, “I could never do that.” Not realizing that in the right situation, we all are susceptible to the same depravities of others. Peter never thought himself capable of what he did, but believed others were. Such an attitude always leads to a fall.

These high and holy seraphic types are powerless in helping lepers. O, they have compassion, but only at a distance. They will never come to where they are; they fear it may rub off.

Jesus was no worse off for touching the leper, but the leper was much better off because He did.”

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