An in-depth look at Jesus as presented in the Gospel of Luke. Each week we are taking one chapter of Luke as a community and seeking to be obedient to Jesus as He reveals Himself to us. This week (beginning 22 Feb 2021) we are reading Luke 6.
In Luke 6, rather than simply healing the withered hand, Jesus invites the participatory faith of the man: "Stretch out your hand". We see this principle: the life that God is longing to give us, cannot flow from Him to us, without us.
As George MacDonald writes: “There can be no good news for us men, except of uplifting love, and no one can be lifted up who will not rise. If God himself sought to raise his little ones without their consenting effort, they would drop from his foiled endeavour. He will carry us in his arms till we are able to walk; he will carry us in his arms when we are weary with walking; he will not carry us if we will not walk.”
Obedient faith is the condition to receiving life from Christ.