You Do It!
This is the sermon I preached Sunday at St. Timothy Lutheran Church. The text is Matthew 9:35-10:8. Jesus was a great, accomplished, sought after teacher, to which the gospels attest. But Jesus didn’t just talk. Healing followed teaching. They went hand in hand. Jesus “healed their diseased bodies, healed their bruised and hurt lives” (Matthew 9:35). I don’t know about you, but there was a time in my life when I felt like there was not one single thing under control in my life: my marriage, my health, finances. I felt like everything was swirling around me. Things happen in life over which we have no sway. We may or may not have degrees of control over what’s happening. All we can manage is our response to it. Will we be victims? Will we place the blame on others? Will we go to our friends and talk about the people who are doing us wrong? About this, Chuck Swindoll wrote: …we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we