The Journey 83: Transformation in the life of sick and suffering

Read: Mark 7:24-30
Key Bible Verse: “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you”. [1Peter 5:6-7].

                This week we are meditating on the theme “ Transforming the life of the sick and the suffering” based on the experiences of the Syrian Phoenician woman and her encounter with Jesus in Mark 7. Yesterday we learnt that conversations are a powerful tool for change and transformation. It is this tool that Jesus used to bring about healing and change in the woman. Another method that Jesus teaches us in this passage is the capacity to deal with other people critical comments and words of apathy so that we become people who are empowered and not grovel in pain because of insensitive words of others. As Jesus dialogues with the woman, we find how strong Jesus is when he uses words like “tossing it to the dogs” [ v: 27], “ I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel” [ Mathew 15:24]. These are word that can cause hurt to a person especially at a time of desperation, but the intention of Jesus Christ I believe is not to hurt but to empower the woman to rise above a life of insults and hurts that she has been facing every day, because of her type of race and sex. Here is Jesus teaching the woman not about isolation from the words and the hurts that other seemed to cause to her on the contrary to insulate her and also give her the power to decide when to get hurt and when not to.
I believe this is the step that leads to healing. Suffering may come about because we tend to get hurt when other dump their anger and their resentful feeling on us. Let us decide today that we are not going to be hurt by their behavior, because we decide who whether to get hurt or not
Whom have you given the power to hurt? Who has the power to heal?
 
Let us Pray: Lord there are times in life when we endure a lot of suffering because we tend to get hurt by others. Empower us to understand that we are the ones who have the capacity to get hurt by their attitude or not. Amen

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