# 290 - Today's Living Word comes from Mr 3:9,10 “And He told His disciples that a small boat should be kept ready for Him because of the multitude, lest they should crush Him. For He healed many, so that as many as had afflictions pressed about Him to touch Him.”
I don't think we can fully appreciate this scene. These people were so desperate for relief from their maladies that they actually put Jesus in jeopardy of being crushed. He was like a door in a crowded movie theater during a fire. And so He had a boat at the ready in case he needed it to get some space.
Why the crush? Why the desperation? We get a clue from the Greek word used here for affliction. It literally means the contact of a whip. These people weren't coming to Jesus with hangnails.
Most likely, you have never felt the pain of a leather whip slicing open your skin. The closest we ever get to having our skin flayed is through an annoying paper cut or a shaving mishap. Well try multiplying the sharpness and duration of that pain by a thousand!
Now, these people weren't there because they had literally been whipped, but they were there because of the intense pain they were feeling. Whether it was brought on by physical, mental, or emotional problems. The pain and the scarring were real, and they clamored for the only one who could give them relief.
How's your pain these days? How's your emotional scarring? All pain and all emotional scarring is a result of sin. Either our own sin or the sin of others. Come to Jesus for your relief. Isa 53:5 says, “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”
May you experience His healing today.
I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.
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