the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Luke 5:12-26
A man full of leprosy comes to the Lord Jesus, recognising His power. He is healed by His willing love.
V. 16 shows us again the secret of this perfect Man: His life of prayer. The perfection of a man lies in the practical experience of entire dependence on God; this dependence is expressed by prayer. That is why Luk continuously presents our incomparable Example in this blessed attitude (Luke 3:21; Luke 5:16; Luke 6:12; Luke 9:18; Luke 9:29; Luke 11:1; Luke 22:32; Luke 22:44).
Then we witness the considerable effort of four people to bring a poor paralysed man into contact with the Lord Jesus (Mark 2:3). May their zeal and persevering faith encourage us! We too can bring to the Lord (through prayer) those whom we long to see converted and perhaps we can invite them to come with us to the place where He has promised to be.
In these ch. 4, 5 sin is presented in different ways: as the power of Satan in those with unclean spirits (Luke 4:33; Luke 4:41); as defilement in the leper; finally as a state of deadness before God (the man with the palsy). The Lord Jesus came to answer these three different conditions: He is the One who delivers, who cleanses, and who gives back to man the use of his faculties.
