_{by Trent - From September 2005}

Leaving Wal-Mart Saturday, I saw a bumper sticker from someone that goes to Cathedral Of Praise.

It read: "Jesus is healing the sick.(In bold) Cathedral of Praise (the fine print off to the side)"

I had mixed feelings about this. First of all , a lot of things are healing the sick, not just Jesus. Heck, band aids help heal infections, but I'm not going to go and make a bumper sticker about it. I guess this ties in with my "More Miracles In the Church" article from before. But, what I did like about it was that it was talking about what Jesus was doing, instead of what we should be doing.

At church today, I thought of a ton of more important things that Jesus is doing besides "healing the sick" ... and I wrote them down. ; Here is what I came up with:

• Jesus is uplifting the downtrodden
• Jesus is delighting the depressed
• Jesus is giving rest to the weary
• Jesus is humbling the proud
• Jesus is purifying the perverse
• Jesus is quickening the dead
• Jesus is calming the anxious
• Jesus is bringing peace to the embattled
• Jesus is giving understanding to the ignorant
• Jeuss is providing wisdom for the fools
• Jesus is redeeming the imprisoned
• Jesus is giving hope to the destitute
• Jesus is strengthening the weak
• Jesus is emboldening the timid
• Jesus is reviving the spent
• Jesus is enabling the unable
• Jesus is helping the helpless
• Jesus is directing the confused
• Jesus is transforming the ungodly
• Jesus is disciplining the rebellious
• Jesus is loving the unlovely
• Jesus is giving patience to the hurried
• Jesus is correcting the deceived
• Jesus is making sincere the fakers
• Jesus is providing integrity to the cheats
• Jesus is perfecting the broken
• Jesus is fixing the dysfunctional
• Jesus is protecting the defenseless
• Jesus is comforting the brokenhearted
• Jesus is befriending the lonely
• Jesus is preserving the decaying
• Jesus is making glad the pitiful

I guess the list could go on and on. But, all of those descriptions of people receiving the grace of God is not a very nice picture. That picture is my exact condition if not for the grace of God.

There are rumors that I am pitiful, a cheat, dysfunctional, unlovely, rebellious, ungodly, and so on. I am here to tell you that those rumors would be the end of the story, except for all the things that Jesus is doing.

So, WDJD for you?