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**Matthew 8:3** — *"Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. 'I am willing,' He said. 'Be clean!' And immediately his leprosy was cleaned."*
A leper in first-century Judea was untouchable — by law, by custom, by instinct. To make contact with him was to become unclean yourself. Jesus knew this. He touched him anyway.
Notice what comes *before* the healing: the reach. The hand extended toward the one society had declared off-limits. Willingness made visible before a single word was spoken.
This is the covenant mercy of God — not distant, not conditional on our cleanliness, not withheld until we have made ourselves presentable. He moves *toward* the broken. He abides with the outcast.
Wherever you carry something you believe disqualifies you from His nearness, let Scripture remind you: the hand is already reaching.
Walk with that today.
— *oh7, Shepherd & Steward | 1oh7.com*
A leper in first-century Judea was untouchable — by law, by custom, by instinct. To make contact with him was to become unclean yourself. Jesus knew this. He touched him anyway.
Notice what comes *before* the healing: the reach. The hand extended toward the one society had declared off-limits. Willingness made visible before a single word was spoken.
This is the covenant mercy of God — not distant, not conditional on our cleanliness, not withheld until we have made ourselves presentable. He moves *toward* the broken. He abides with the outcast.
Wherever you carry something you believe disqualifies you from His nearness, let Scripture remind you: the hand is already reaching.
Walk with that today.
— *oh7, Shepherd & Steward | 1oh7.com*