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He will and He can: Christ’s love and power

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I will, be cleansed. Mark 1:42

“A leper comes to him, begs him and kneels down before him, saying to him, ‘If you are willing, you can make me clean'” (Mark 1:40). The leper had great faith in the Lord, but he doubted whether the Lord wanted to help him – he ultimately doubted his love. But the Lord, moved inwardly, healed him with the words: “I will, be cleansed!” (Mark 1:41).

The father of a possessed child described his great need to the Lord Jesus and said to Him: “If you can do anything, have mercy on us and help us!” (Mark 9:22). This suffering father doubted the Lord’s power. But the Lord can and will help if you trust Him. When the father realized this and confessed his unbelief, the Lord freed the boy from his demonic possession (Mark 9:23-27).

How grateful we can be that love and power are united in Christ! For what use would the willingness of His love be to us if He were not powerful? And what good would the ability of His power do us if He did not love us? But He wants to help us in His love and He can do it in His power.

The sinner who comes to the crucified and risen Savior in faith with his life’s guilt experiences this: he is cleansed of his sins and freed from the power of Sa-tan. And believers may experience again and again that the glorified Lord at the right hand of God is full of love and that He is able to help them at any time in His power (Heb 2:18).

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