St. Johns is building a new hospital just around the corner from our house. It seems like it has taken forever for it to be built. Waiting for the land to be leveled, foundations poured, walls, drive, paint, lights, wind sock, and whatever went on inside, took a loooonnnngggg time! Now everything looks ready. The landscaping is even finished, complete with sprinkler system!
Obviously other people thought it was open too because they posted these big signs in front of the hospital. HOSPITAL NOT OPEN.
Jesus was born into a world needing a healer. But the world had 'signs' stating 'hospital not open' all around it:
The Pharisees made rules for the people that could not be kept: HOSPITAL NOT OPEN!
The Romans took over the promised land: HOSPITAL NOT OPEN!
The Zealots stirring up trouble: HOSPITAL NOT OPEN!
The tax collectors taking much more than their share of the peoples earning: HOSPITAL NOT OPEN.
Jesus arrived on the scene and called all people to come to him. He healed their sick, recruited their Pharisees, Zealots, and tax collectors. But still the sign read: HOSPITAL NOT OPEN.
Then he died, and it looked like the end. But Mary came to the tomb, and she saw the stone that was rolled away. And the lights came on! The tomb was OPEN! and Jesus brought healing for death itself!
I live in the Kingdom of the Great Physician! Where the OPEN sign is posted for all to come in!
Acts 4: 8-12
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers and elders of the people! If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. He is
" 'the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the capstone.'
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
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