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05/10/2025

Daily Devotional 📖

Cleansed L***r

“Behold, a l***r came and worshiped Him, saying, ‘Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean’ ” (Matthew 8:2).

Hansen’s disease—leprosy—is a chronic infectious disease that causes skin lesions and nerve damage. It’s quite rare in the United States, with only sixty-three cases reported in 2015. The disease is caused by infection from bacteria and may not show symptoms for up to twenty years! The damage to nerves results in a lack of ability to feel pain and causes patients to repeatedly wound themselves without noticing their injuries.

Though leprosy is not highly contagious, it is spread between people through physical contact. The disease is curable through antibiotic treatments, which are provided free of charge to anyone by the World Health Organization. In the 1980s, over five million people in the world had leprosy, but today the number has fallen below 200,000. In the past twenty years, sixteen million people have been cured of leprosy. Over half of all cases of leprosy are in India.

Leprosy has affected people for thousands of years. The Bible word translated as leprosy can include other infectious skin diseases. To protect the community from the spread of disease, people with leprosy or other skin infections would be separated from others. Such was the case with the l***r who approached Jesus after the Sermon on the Mount.

The diseased man must have heard Christ’s words from a distance, causing faith to spring up in his heart. After being separated from his loved ones and labelled an outcast by society, it took great courage to approach Jesus and ask to be healed. But his faith was rewarded. “Then Jesus, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I am willing; be cleansed.’ As soon as He had spoken, immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed” (Mark 1: 41, 42).

Are you in need of the compassionate touch of the Healer?

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When it comes to life’s priorities, what comes first? In this message, we’re reminded that God must come before everything else—before our plans, our worries, and even our successes.

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01/10/2025

Daily Devotional 📖

Nicodemus

“There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews” (John 3:1).

Some animals appear to give birth to their young more easily than others. One factor that makes labour more challenging is the size of the foetus relative to the mother. If a 140-pound animal gives birth to a seven-pound infant, the baby represents 5 percent of her body weight. But if a 1,000-pound horse gives birth to a 100-pound foal, the baby foal represents 10 percent of the mother’s weight. The larger the offspring, the more dangerous and complicated the birth.

Labour times for humans tend to be longer than for animals. Nine hours is an average labour time for first-time mothers, while a dog can give birth to a litter in about an hour. Cattle take about two or three hours and horses can give birth in just 30 minutes, but with great force. The gestation period for spotted hyenas is quite long and the birth often difficult. Human babies have much larger heads (in relation to the rest of their body) than other mammals, so passing through the birth canal is a more challenging process.

Jesus once told a respected teacher in Israel, “You must be born again” (John 3:7). Nicodemus was a wealthy, educated, and powerful religious leader who became interested in Christ after he saw Him clear the temple courts. But he didn’t want to risk embarrassment by meeting with the teacher publicly. So, he sought out the Saviour at night.

After briefly complimenting Jesus, the Lord spoke directly to the point. Jesus told the self-assured man that he needed to spiritually start from the beginning. Nicodemus had a lot of head knowledge about God but lacked a new heart. With great difficulty, he finally went through the new birth experience.

It is always a painful process to humble our hearts in true repentance and admit our helpless condition. But God is ready to deliver us into a new way of living.

Dear Father, I long to be born again and receive a new heart. Please renew me in Your image.

For Further Study: John 3:1–21; Ezekiel 36:26; 1 Peter 1:23

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