dumb leper, she said, looking into the mirror

Mark 1:44-45
The leper did not obey or honor Jesus’ warning not to tell anyone what just happened. Jesus healed him of this horrible condition—fatal physically and socially, making him a societal pariah—and yet he did not do the one thing his healer told him to. In fact, v. 45 says “he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news.” Picture the town crier. “Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places.”

How many times have I been the leper healed and did not do the one thing You said to and so caused You to stay outside in lonely places…

Even there in the outlying areas of town where You had to stay though, “the people still came to Him from everywhere.”

Still I come to You. Where else would I ever want to go?