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Friday, May 16, 2025
A little over a week ago, as Shelley and I took our after-breakfast walk, I caught sight of this discarded bandaid on the sidewalk. As you can see, it’s fallen with the protective gauze pad facing up, and the pad looks pretty clean. So it seems as though whatever wound this may have covered was pretty well healed, so that this may have been a final precautionary application, maybe affixed by a loving and germ-phobic mom.
As you probably know, Jesus’ first ministry to people was most likely a healing one. Whole villages would hurry to Him, guiding or even carrying friends who were sick:
“Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at Jesus’ feet, and He healed them.” (Matthew 15:30 NKJV)
In fact, if there would have been bandaids back then, Jesus’ healing touch would have instantly made bandages or other healing devices obsolete, as the formerly wounded stared in disbelief at their perfectly-restored skin.
When it comes to our health, we should make use of whatever remedies restore us, but we should never forget to get Jesus involved. Check out both the following links for some of what the Bible says about health.