How weird would it be to see a car driving on the ground without any wheels? We see the car moving. We hear the sound of it moving. But there are no wheels.
How weird would it be to see people swimming in a pool that has no water? These people are swimming. They are doing all of the swimming motions. These people are even diving into the pool. They are laughing, smiling, and behaving as though they are swimming and are having fun. But they are in an empty pool and are floating in the air. They are swimming in complete nothingness.
Trippy right? This is the kind of scene our devotional conversation, when it begins its journey, entertains.
We don't know it, but our conversation, when first conceived, is swimming in a pool of nothingness and is moving without wheels. Our conversation is moving, but it is moving without right control. It is because the character of our faith moves without right control that the Bible encourages us to ask our self a simple question: "Why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?" 1 Corinthians 10:29
The mind inspiring the Bible's philosophy would have us understand that no other conscience should guide our conversation's conscience. The ideal experience for our conversation is it possessing an atmosphere where no conception, drawn from outside of it, rules its temperament, feeling, expression, or behavior.
The Bible's number one concern is that our conversation learns how to walk on its own. This is why it says, "Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?" Mark 2:9
The proper context of this scene is not of an individual talking to and mysteriously bettering another individual plagued with leprosy. This is a scene explaining the essence of a philosophy entering into the heart of a diseased conversation and encouraging that conversation to live on its own.
Are you leprous? If you are, then we may say that only if having literal leprosy, or a literal malady, can what you are reading benefit you. And where is the healer of leprosy? Where is the healer of literal disease? Can you find him? Can you go to them right now if you wanted? If you call, will they come to you quickly? If you are not diseased, but take a trip to a place where diseased people are, if you call this healer from the book of Mark, will they show up?
This healer healed only 1. the sick 2. the sick only in and around the land of the Jews 3. when he was alive. Do you fit the qualifications to presently receive the physical rejuvenation here spoken of? I definitely do adopt an ignorant tone in what I am saying, but should we hold what we are reading to a literal context, we do miss the point, that what is written is stated to give the reader an idea of what is truly to be healed.
Do we trust that "God is a Spirit"? John 4:24. Do we trust that "a spirit hath not flesh and bones"? Luke 24:39. If we trust these things, then we ought to trust that what we review in the scriptures is not primarily written for any physical thing, but for an inward benefit. What is to walk is not the leprous human being, but rather the leprous devotional conversation.
The living God will heal that nature closest in association. What is closest in association to the living God is the spirit of our mind. This is why it says, "That which is born of the Spirit is spirit," John 3:6, and, “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind,” Ephesians 4:23.
Our task is to add consciousness to our conversation. Our task is to have our conversation bettered. Is it such a wrong thing to let the Creator create our conversation anew? Is it such a wrong thing to actually learn that our denominationally supported conversation is erroneous? Are we truly content with the aimless direction of a scripted religious conversation? If you are tuning in to this post, I know you are not content. Take care of your faith so that your faith can take care of you.