Is your heart heavy? Are you feeling low? What if you could go talk to Jesus and hand-pick the words you wanted Him to say? You know what you need to hear, right? When you’re feeling weighed down, you want to be encouraged. You want to know you’re loved. You want to know everything’s going to be alright. You need to hear some good news. I think most of us assume that if we were to go to Jesus, it would be like going to the principal’s office. We just know that we’d be in trouble somehow. I can still remember being a little kid called to the office in school and wondering which of the thousands of wrong things I had done I was about to get busted for. That long march down the hallway found me rifling through a mental rolodex of my offenses, trying not to give anything away by the look on my face. One time a paralyzed guy was carried to Jesus by his friends. They picked up the sleeping bag he was helplessly lying on and dragged him in front of Jesus. Can you imagine what was going through that dude’s mind as he was on his way to coming face-to-face with the Son of God in the flesh? Was he nervous? Was he panicking? Was he heavy-hearted and in low spirits? However he felt, Jesus knew exactly what to say. Our Lord looked this poor dude in the eyes and said, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” He didn’t scold or reprimand. He spoke words of love, forgiveness and family. Jesus knows what your heart needs to hear and He has good news for you.
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