Luke 4:31-44

It’s very easy for us to think that God is too busy for us, or that God has bigger fish to fry than that which we ourselves bring before Him.  Well Jesus dispenses with that idea on the front lawn of Peter’s house in Luke 4, where it’s not enough to understand that He healed the crowd  –  but rather how it is He did it.  The same God who simply spoke the universe into existence could have just poked His head out the front door and said “Alright  – be healed each and every one of you, now drive safely on your way home, bye-bye.”  But that’s not what he did.  In revealing the heart of our great God, the text records that Jesus took the time to lay His hand upon and touch every individual present.  God does not deal with us in mass, but wants to touch each of us personally, intimately, individually.