The Healing Touch of ChristEsimerkki

Day 5 Devotional: Receiving the Healing Touch of Christ The healing of the leper in this passage presents to us a picture of what happens to us when, through the gospel, we receive the spiritually healing touch of Christ that brings God’s salvation into our lives. Like the healed leper in this passage, we become so healed of sin and so infectious with the life of Christ that we infect people with the good news of the gospel that has spiritually healed and transformed us. The good news of the gospel is that, in and through Christ Jesus, God became a human being, and He took on our sickness of sin, and instead of the world infecting Him, God infected this world with His salvation through Christ. On the cross, Christ took all our sins to death, and He rose again from the dead to give to all who place their faith in Him, God’s eternal life. When we place our faith in Christ, God also indwells us with His Holy Spirit, who vaccinates us against sin and gives us spiritual immunity and power over our sickness of sin. And when we are spiritually healed and transformed, our faith in God becomes so infectious that instead of people around us infecting us with their doom and gloom, we infect them with our faith in God and we draw them to Christ, just as the healed leper did in this passage, because it is only in and through Christ that human beings can find the real hope that we all need in these difficult days.