Being an outcast is never fun.
While some people like to be in a wolfpack of one, most don’t.
We want people to relate to or with.
Sometimes we feel like an outcast.
Once every while my anxiety gets the best of me and I don’t like being in group situations.
Often when we are like this, it’s more our choice.
For others it’s not a choice they are an outcast not by choice, but by what others think about them.
Nobody wants to be an outcast.
In Bible times, you were an outcast if you were sick or not well.
Some people wouldn’t even talk to you because they thought you did something to tick God off.
If you were hurt, people wouldn’t be around you.
When you were in this condition, you were not allowed to go into the Temple until you were better.
You were an outcast.
In John chapter 5 Jesus comes across a guy who has been an outcast for 38 years.
Jesus went by and asked, “Do you want to get well?”
The guy was waiting around a pool that people believed would heal you in you went in.
He explained, he had no one to help him get into the pool to be healed.
Jesus told him to get up and walk.
This is what happened in verse 9-10…
“At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
Jesus allows a person who was an outcast for 38 years to be healed and normal again.
Certain people got mad because this was supposed to be on a day off.
Jesus does great on a day off and people get mad because he did this on a day off.
We don’t have to be an outcast.
Through Christ we can connect, we don’t have to be alone.
Through Christ we are not an outcast.
Part of knowing Christ is knowing that other people around us need help and feel like outcast.
We are called to show love and help people realize they don’t have to be an outcast through the love of Christ.
Who can you show love too?
Have a great day.
