Moments

While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.   Luke 5:12-13 (ESV)

“The divinely-offered key to a right appreciation of Christ’s spiritual work, even to that which theologians call the Atonement, should be sought by observing how our Lord cleansed the lepers, made the blind to see, and the lame to walk. Let us endeavour to realize how He, whose name is the only name given under heaven among men whereby we may be saved, healed men’s diseases, in order that we may understand, so far as it has been revealed, how He saves us from our sins.” (William Wright)

The leper was in a hopeless situation and realized that only Christ could give him hope. Christ responded and cleansed him, as only He could do. I wonder what this man did with the rest of his life. I wonder how much this moment changed him forever.

God gives us moments, and what we do in the moment and after the moment matters and is driven by what we understood happened.

Leprosy and sin do the similar things to us. What we do with the problem and for every day after the problem matters.