Tuesday, September 1: “Show Your Healing”

Luke 5: 14: “[Jesus] ordered him to tell no one, ‘But go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’”

If I’m the priest in the temple, I wouldn’t be convinced of the healing of an empty-handed man who still had visible leprosy, no matter how much he proclaimed, “I’m healed!” It would be what I was shown: clear skin and an offering coming from a grateful heart. If we want to get into the Kingdom of God, and lead others there, it will require the same visibility.