Truth over Experience

Can you imagine what the leper of the end of Mark 1 must have felt when Jesus cleansed him of this horrible, deadly disease? I get pretty excited about getting over a cold, but this former leper's whole life had changed. What unmatchable joy! Yet, Jesus gave some unusual instruction, at least seemingly unusual to us, to tell no one of the experience. I don't know that I could contain such an experience, and the former leper struggled with that also. He told everyone! Can you blame him? Jesus' instructions does perhaps at first glance seem contrary to His purpose, but it is always right to obey God. What we can learn from this passage is that God's truth is always more important than experience.

Today's episode comes from Mark chapters 1 and 2.