Wednesday 31 Aug 2022

August 31: Luke 4:38-44

Key Verse: Luke 4:39
So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

Devotion:
After spending time in the synagogue, Jesus went to Simon’s house where he found Simon’s mother-in-law suffering from a high fever. Now the writer could have just said He healed the woman, but instead says He rebuked the fever! This, to me, shows the amazing power of Christ over everything in life! When we say there is nothing impossible for Christ, we don’t often think about things like Him talking to fevers!

Jesus had more of an understanding on everything in life than our scientists will ever have. Our scientists may be able to work out many amazing things and be able to do amazing things, but Jesus was able to understand what the underlying issue was and do something directly with that.

Quite often when we go to see our doctors we go through a barrage of questions so they can narrow the scope down a bit before trying things out. If they could see inside of us they may well be able to get to the root cause much quicker and be able to try and start treating the issue, but they cannot do that and have to go on experience and knowledge to give a best diagnosis – most often than not getting it right and helping us out!

Jesus got word directly from God to know what the issue was and work with that to start with; but not in the same way as our doctors and nurses do nowadays – He dealt with the issue in ways we cannot understand. This is the awesome God we have in our lives and this is how we can have greater peace and comfort than with any practitioner of any kind… even if we do need the practitioners to help us to fix the problems we have!

Points to Ponder:
Do you see Christ as your everything?

Will you ask Christ to guide you more today?