Read: Mark 2:1-12

Son, your sins are forgiven
you,…I say to you, arise.
-Mark 2:5-11

Social worker Margaret Sangster told her colleagues about seeing a
young boy in an urban ghetto who appeared little more than a bit of
twisted human flesh. He had been struck by a car several months earlier
and had not received proper medical attention.

Although he was not a part of her caseload, she took the boy to an
orthopedist, who performed surgery on his legs. Two years later the boy
walked into Sangster’s office without crutches. His recovery was
complete. Margaret recalled that as the two embraced she thought, If I
accomplish nothing else in my life, I have made a real differed with at
least this one!

Sangster then told her colleagues, "This was all several years
ago now. Where do you think that boy is today?" They suggested
that he might be a teacher, a physician, or a social worker. With deep
emotion, she responded, "No, he’s in the penitentiary for one of
the foulest crimes a human can commit." Then she said, "I was
instrumental in teaching him how to walk again, but there was no one to
teach him where to walk."

Our mission is to point people to Jesus. Only through Him can those
with broken bodies, broken dreams, broken homes, and broken hearts
experience wholeness of life. -Haddon W. Robinson

Lord, help us to tell of Your love for mankind –
A love for the
sin-sick, the broken, the blind;
And help them to see by the way
that we live
The wholeness of life that You long to give. -DJD

ONLY JESUS CAN GIVE WHOLENESS OF LIFE
TO A BROKEN WORLD.

OUR DAILY BREAD, Copyright 1998 by Radio Bible Class, Grand
Rapids,Michigan. Used by permission.