Reflection from your Co-Pastors
Monday Dec 7, 2020
Isaiah 35: 1-10
Psalm 85: 9-14
Luke 5: 17-26
Here's the scene of today's gospel from Luke…
Jesus, the disciples, and many pharisees and scribes, are sitting in someone's home, and Jesus is teaching them. A large crowd is gathered at the door of this home waiting to hopefully find healing through this Rabbi. Scripture tells us that the power of God for healing was with Jesus this day. Some men carrying a paralytic on a stretcher realize that they will never get close to Jesus because of the crowd outside the door. Not finding a way to bring this paralytic into the presence of Jesus, they go up on the roof, remove some of the roof tiles, and lower the man on the stretcher down into the house right in front of Jesus.
When Jesus sees their faith, he turns to the paralytic and says, "As for you, your sins are forgiven." Then he tells the man "Rise and walk."
The scribes and pharisees present were asking themselves,"Who is this man? Who but God alone can forgive sins?" Jesus, knowing their thoughts, turned toward them and said, What are you thinking in your hearts?"
As we enter our second week of Advent with Covid cases rising throughout our state, Larimer county on code red, and holiday
