Fw: The invisible problem

Mark 2:9 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your bed and walk'? 10 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the paralytic— 11 "I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home."

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We have two kinds of problems...visible and invisible.  The most common visible ones call for healing and, in my experience, they are the most common prayer requests that I see.  The most prevalent invisible ones call for repentance and deliverance...we call them sin.  They also are the subject of prayer requests, but not as often.  Sin is an uncomfortable term.  In the New Testament the Greek word is hamartia.  This is a technical archery term for "missing the mark".  You might say that God has a way of living that He's designed and when we sin we miss the mark of following that way of living.  We are "shooting the arrow of our life" at the wrong target or aiming poorly at the target He's established.

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Before we can know God in the close way He desires we need the invisible problem of sin to be addressed within us.  When Jesus healed the paralytic man in the passage from Mark he knew that people were far more concerned with the visible/physical problems because you just can't get around the very real limitations that they create.  But He wanted them all to shift their focus from the visible to the invisible...the sin problem...because they were aware that each of them had that problem but few would come to be delivered from it.

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God is looking for people who will honestly face their "missing the mark" sin problem and come to Him for the healing only He has the authority to provide.  It may be invisible but it is very real.  After all, the greatest realities for we human beings are the ones we can't see.

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blessings!

Rob Smith

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"Death is inevitable.  Life is a choice!"

John 11:25

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live."