He came for healing and he found forgiveness. What a day that was. Don’t even know his name, but Jesus called him “Friend.” And the Lord noticed faith. Faith of the man himself, but faith of his friends who let him down through the roof for an audience with the Rabbi. The human wall proved only his determination to get see Jesus. (Luke 5:17-26). Blasphemy, reasoned the elite, for only God can forgive sins! And, they might well add, “That is … if one should happen to need forgiveness, of which we, rather I, have no need.”

’Twas harder which to say, “You are forgiven” or “You are healed”? Take your pick, He did both. Classical case of arguing from the greater to the lesser: “If I can do the greater, more difficult thing, then it is no stretch to accept that I can also do the lesser.”

The result: Glorifying God and fear. But, all agreed, “We have seen remarkable things today.”
Oh, that today I might see the remarkable activity of the Lord in my life! A sense of His forgiveness and a touch of his healing hand. Paralysis is gone. I am free.