I wanted some earbuds to use while running last week, so I went with the best ones Dollar General had to offer. They look kind of like AirPods (a little bit), but they only work some of the time already.
We say that “you get what you pay for,” and we’ve probably all gone cheap on a product and lived to regret it.
With Jesus, it’s not “you get what you pay for,” but sometimes it’s “you get what you come for.”
Luke 4:40 says, “Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.”
Some came for a show, to see if Jesus would do something amazing for someone, anyone, just not them. Others came to have a demon cast out of someone. Many came for physical healing.
Those aren’t bad reasons to come to Jesus, but I wonder how many came that day for the best reason: spiritual healing.
What about us? Why do we come to Jesus?
Why do we pray? Just for physical things we need or most of all for spiritual things we (and others we care about) need?