Christ is Born!
Are you one of those “needy people?” I sure hope so.
If we had to describe the people who come to the Lord in today’s reading with one word it would certainly have to be “needy.” They had diseases. They were troubled by evil spirits. They needed healing. They needed Christ- and they knew it. And what is our Lord’s response to them? To affirm them in their independence of course! – NOT! He affirms their need. Contrary to all the world teaches us the Lord tells them that they are blessed in their need because this need (and their knowledge and acceptance of this need) leads to them being fulfilled by Him.
The question for us today, brothers and sisters, isn’t even “do we need Jesus?” the question is “do we know we need Jesus?” Only through our realization that we are hungry for Him can we be filled. Only through realizing we are desperately incomplete without Him will we be fulfilled by Him.
In a culture which pushes our independence and self-confidence while trying to sell the idea that everything is possible as long as you believe in yourself enough, let us as Christians turn to the Only One who can give us real life- let us stay needy.
Christ is Born!
