Tuesday 10 September

Colossians 2: 6-15; Psalm 145; Luke 6:12-19

Called to be healers

Jesus calls a group of men to follow him closely and is immediately inundated with crowds who beg him to heal them. Perhaps the first lesson that Jesus is teaching his newly chosen disciples is that they too will be asked to give themselves unstintingly to heal the pain of the world. Paul proclaims to the Colossians that the fullness of God is in Jesus. Is your God full of compassion for the sick and the suffering of humanity? Do you allow him to make you a channel of his compassion – over and over again?