Pills of Faith January 16 "Jesus lifted her up by the hand"

"Jesus came up and took her by the hand." In fact, this patient could not get up on her own; bedridden, she could not come to meet Jesus. But the merciful doctor approaches him to the bed. The one who had brought a sick sheep on his shoulders (Lk 15,5) now advances towards this bed ... He gets closer and closer, to heal more. Note well what is written ... "You could undoubtedly have come to meet me, you should have welcomed me on the threshold of your home; but then healing would have resulted not so much from my mercy as from your will. Since a fever prostrates you and prevents you from getting up, I come. "

"He lifted it." Since she could not rise up on her own, the Lord raises her up. "He held it up by the hand." When Pietro was in danger at sea, at the moment when he was about to drown, he too was taken by the hand, and rose ... What a beautiful manifestation of friendship and affection for that sick woman! He lifts it up by the hand; his hand heals the patient's hand. He takes this hand as a doctor would have done, feels the pulse and assesses the severity of the fever, the one who is both a doctor and a remedy. Jesus touches her, and the fever disappears.

We hope that it will touch our hand so that our acts will be purified. That you enter our house: let's finally get out of our bed, don't stay lying down. Is Jesus at our bedside and are we lying down? Come on, stand up! ... "Among you stands one whom you do not know" (Jn 1,26:17,21); "The Kingdom of God is among you" (Lk XNUMX). We have faith, and we will see Jesus present among us.