Stretch

“Jesus entered into a synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
And he said unto him Stand forth.
And he said unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.”
Mark 3:1–5

Like so many of His miracles, here Jesus asked the man to do the action while Jesus’s power did the work behind the scenes.
The healing was so complete that we might be tempted to wonder if that hand had ever been withered.

Jesus holds the power to restore the parts of us – our lives, our habits, our hearts, our relationships, that are withered or not yet what we hope they would be.

To receive a healing miracle, we must focus our faith on Jesus Christ, and do what He asks to stretch.

And after we change, may we always remember how He healed us, when we were not whole.