Online Daily Bible Study for Families and Individuals, Day 1

Mark 1:40 A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” 41 Jesus was indignant. He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” 42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.
1. What was the social situation of those with potentially contagious diseases?
2. Was this a reasonable social policy?
3. But what did it mean for those with chronic diseases? How would they feel?
4. This points to why Jesus was indignant. a. What does indignant mean? b. Why was Jesus angry? c. Could brave people have reached out and shown love and care without making physical contact? e. How much easier is that today?
5. Just like Jesus healed the leper, who is healing those with the Coronavirus and doing so without getting sick themselves?
6. Jesus’ healing ministry has spread in miraculous ways throughout the last 150 years by way of advances in medicine. a. And yet are there sick people left behind by our society? b. How does Jesus feel about that? c. And what is his Spirit calling good people and good societies to do in this regard?
7. Are there lonely people feeling left behind by our society? What can God’s people do about those in nursing homes, prisoners, widows, orphans, the childless, friendless, the socially awkward due to various reasons?
Unison Prayer:
God of health and justice,
Be with the sick in our world today. Help us to stop the spread of the Coronavirus. Be with doctors and nurses everywhere who are saving and healing your people. Give them strength, wisdom and please protect them. Help us to know how to reach out to the lonely. Thank you for furthering your Kingdom purposes through technology and medicine. May we use them justly to further the healing of the Great Physician Jesus. Amen