"11I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home."
Only powerful words are needed to be told to make a sick man strong. After Jesus saw their effort to bring this man forward to him and saw the faith of all of them he forgives the sins of this paralytic man.
But what I liked about this verse is the part about go home. We all have a home and maybe more than one. It depends on what places you make to your home and in which locations you feel like home. When you feel home it is a comfortable and careless feeling which can be described as warm. So it can be the place where you grew up but also various different places can be your home and some can become your new home as well as some homes can be lost. I hope that we all have two nice homes one by our parents and with our siblings and the other in the church. So we have a place to go and a place to put our mat to in order to rest and find relief.
I hope that we all can go often to our home to our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Of course the term “home” is also been closely linked to the home in heaven which our father has prepared for us. But first we have to learn to behave appropriate in the homes on earth in order to go to the better home:)
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Hehe, as what I noticed, "go home" also interested me, but on different dimension. Here Jesus asked him "take your mat and go home", but not "take your cross and come follow me". Actually, I found that it's not an usual case that Jesus actively called people to follow him. For the most part is such case that Jesus healed people and said "go, your faith saved you", and then people followed him.
So that I think the twelve disciples are truly blessed, and also wise, because they threw away immediately all their stuffs in the world and received Jesus's invitation.
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