Mark 2:7-11 CEB

"Why does he speak this way? 

He's insulting God. 

Only the one God can forgive sins."

Jesus immediately recognized what they were discussing, and he said to them, 

"Why do you fill your minds with these questions?

Which is easier - to say to a paralyzed person, 'Your sins are forgiven',

or to say, 

'Get up, take up your bed, and walk'? 

But so you will know that the Human One  has authority on the earth to forgive sins" - he said to the man who was paralyzed,

"Get up, take your mat, and go home."

Mark 2:7-11 CEB

Jesus laid it out for these teachers and scholars, that they can't actually do either of these things, forgive or heal, but he can do both.

Because he is who he says he is.

Yes only God can forgive and he is doing that. 

Only God has power over creation to move and reshape it and he is doing that, so that they will know he has the power, the authority, the right, to forgive, to set things right between Creator and the Created.

Between people & God.

Between us & God.

Forgiveness & Healing.

Jesus said he's going to prepare a place for us, a place where we will fully know Forgiveness, fully know Healing, be fully alive.

In the meantime we can trust that Jesus is who he says he is, in the glimpses, the moments, the tasters of fully aliveness...

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