We gathered at the doorstep when we heard that he was there,
So many that we could not be received.
But he was gracious to the crowd and preached the Word of God,
And those with open hearts and minds believed.
We felt the love that animated everything he did,
The love that every word he spoke conveyed.
And thought was lifted high above our view of life.
He showed to us the man our Father made.
A neighbor, who was carried there by friends upon his bed,
Was certain that his palsy could be healed. See Luke 5:18-26.
He had his friends remove the roofing tiles and let him down
To Jesus, and his faith was thus revealed.
But Jesus didn't speak about the palsy, not a word.
"Man, thy sins are forgiven thee," he said.
While certain scribes, within themselves, were thinking
"blasphemies,"
The crippled man arose from off his bed.
Jesus asked the question, "Whether is easier, to say,
Thy sins be forgiven thee" or..Rise...?"
Healing and forgiving sins to Jesus were the same.
But they preferred instead to theorize,
How speaking thus was blasphemy against the Word of God,
Who pardoned sins since time began.
But Jesus proved that Christ, God's idea, has power
On earth to take away the sins of men.
