Isaiah 40:21-31; Mark 1:29-39
Jesus touches Simon Peter’s mother-in-law to heal her. He crosses a very strong line, and He implies that is to be done not only for individuals but in the synagogues, the religion as well. The healing was a miracle, but the touching was against the rules of ancient Judaism. So even if it was good, full of love, it broke the law to touch the unclean.
We as Christians are not immune to these lines as well. How we worship, what we think, we set up lines as well.
We need to learn from young children who can see the image on a coloring sheet and yet color away with their hearts intent. If the page is a picture of a bunny they will color across all the lines and say it is a bunny. It is not that the lines are not important but they are not meant to contain, that which is “unsearchable” as Isaiah says in verse 28.
Let us be like the children, like Jesus, and cross over boundaries and lines to touch others with our crayons of love.
Is not the cross and empty tomb the ultimate crossing of the boundary?
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