Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Mark 2:1-5
by: Jo Anne Kandel.
The insistence of friends to help a suffering person is as striking here as it is in Mark 7:32 where the friends begged Jesus to lay his hands on the deaf man. In this passage the four friends are so confident that Jesus will heal their friend, they climb on top of the roof and tear a hole in it to lower the man down!
There are two lessons that we can learn from these friends. First, we need to help others, especially people with disabilities. Second, and perhaps more difficult, we need to graciously allow others to help us when we are in need.