Reckless Forgiveness

The four men worth their weight in gold didn’t necessarily expect it.

The paralyzed man didn’t expect it.

The people in the crowd didn’t expect it.

The religious professionals didn’t expect it.

All the friends of the paralyzed man wanted was an old-fashioned healing miracle. 

They saw their buddy’s broken body. 

They’ve seen and heard what Jesus can do with broken bodies. 

So, they put two and two together.  Simple as that.

But, they didn’t realize – and neither do we - that divine math works a bit differently from merely human math.

In human math, 2 + 2 always yields 4.

But, when you bring God into equation, the results can be quite… how shall I say it? Unpredictable?

It looks more like,

 

2+2=5 or

2+2=874 or even

2+2=1

For, when you put two and two into the hands of the Son  of God, you never know what may come out on the other side of equation.

Inside our human logic,

Crime +Justice = Punishment

Religion + Hard Work = Reward

And so on. And so forth.

But the only thing that Jesus seems to recognize in that room is the reckless faith.

And He responds to it by the matching gift of reckless forgiveness.