Jesus Christ described His mission:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”
How has Jesus’s mission impacted me?
He has opened the eyes of the blind, when that blind man was me.
He’s helped my heart see and believe that we are all children of God, that there is abundant hope for each of us.
He has freed the captive by helping me overcome temptations and dependencies.
He is healing me from pride and fault-finding with others.
He is warming my heart to care more about people.
He is strengthening me to believe I can hold on when I feel too tired or hungry.
He sometimes lifts me to get up and get to work when I would rather not.
He is trying to straighten out my tendency to overdo it, and help me to lighten up, and see the big picture.
He is cleaning me out to become fully frankly sincere.
He and I have a long work to do to get these things right.
But the work is underway, so there is hope, and peace now.
I thank God for the gift of His Son, for the gift of tiny incremental changes, that are miracles!
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