Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Lesson 26 - Looking for Jesus, His Life and Times




Doctor Jesus



Oh boy! Researching the healings and miracles that Jesus performed has become personally challenging. My chosen title ‘. . .His Day  and Times’ keeps me in restricted space. I want so much to sneakily drift over the line into my own beliefs, my own experiences, my own personal faith rather than just what scholars have discovered historically.


If you are reading this, you too, probably have an already strong spiritual and present connection with the Master Jesus. And like me are interested, even fascinated with the idea of who he might have been and what he had done back in the day. Well, now we are going into unknown territory. Don’t bother to pack your camera for today. This will be a different kind of journey.


I must remember what we have learned together so far – the gospel writers shared memories. And this is how - they shared these memories through hymns they sung when they got together to break bread. They would meet once a week at someone’s home and chant the now agreed upon words, sentences and stories. They strung together words and phrases that stuck in their heads after Jesus repeated them many times. They added the miracles and deeds of Jesus as a troubadour would, poetically and with emotional song. These get togethers were very much like a simple church service and were styled on the weekly ceremony at the local synagogue.

These hymns were shared, group to group over fifty to a hundred years before they were ever ‘officially’ written down. Note what you just read – the ‘history’ that is ‘recorded’ in the gospels was taken from poetic hymns sung repeatedly and repetitiously. Complete accuracy was not the point, but the emotional bonding of the group, and with other groups, was the goal.


Where does that leave me? 


Where does that leave you when the stories of Jesus’ healing power is contemplated?

For me, I will allow the stories of his love, compassion, and yes, his healing power to enter my heart.

Are they accurate? 


Who really knows?


 But, here in my inner most tabernacle I will allow the meaning of healing and the presence of Jesus to answer me. . .


. . .This is as close to Doctor Jesus I will be able to get. This may not be scholarly, but you know? – This feels right, and I will find myself more than close enough.










1.     Spend time over several days thinking about healing and what this means for you?



2.     How accurate do you believe they stories of Jesus’ healing powers are?



3.     Does the understanding of how the healing stories were recorded change your belief about them?


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