Open the door

Thursday February 19th Mark 1: 40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, "If you are willing, you can make me clean." Jesus, don’t touch that man, Jesus, he is unclean. If you touch him, you will become unclean. It is not only wrong, it is illegal. Remember Leviticus 13:45-46, The person who has the leprous disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head be disheveled; and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, "Unclean, unclean." he shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease; he is unclean. He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp. OK then, so much for all the laws and all those rules, and rubrics and fences and boundaries, and borders we put in place to keep others at bay. Neither Jesus nor the leper listened to the conventional wisdom of the day. They both cross boundaries that were not to be crossed. Sometimes crossing those boundaries from unfaith to faith, from unlove to love, from fear to hope; from self-reliance to relationship, etc… sometimes crossing those boundaries is what is needed in order to see the love of God that surrounds us. What boundaries do you have in place, who is out there and what are they trying to tell you? Every boundary has Jesus on the other side. Open the door let those out who want to keep their border fences out, to hopefully find their path again to return to the family of God, and let in those kept out by those fences so meticulously maintained by our satanically inspired prejudice.