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The best thing you can do for a friend is to bring them to Jesus! We don't all have friends who are paralyzed physically, but we all have friends who are crippled by their sins and in desperate need of Jesus' healing touch.

Jesus' compassion on the paralyzed man was rooted in the faith of his friends. The text says, "When Jesus saw THEIR faith", He healed the paralyzed man. And notice how that healing came. Jesus said, "Son, your sins are forgiven." I don't know the connection between this man's handicap and his sin, but I do know the brokenness that always comes to my life through my own sin.

Two major points from this little story. First, God loves it when we bring our friends to Him. Who do we know and love that needs to be forgiven by Jesus? Are we doing what we can to bring them to Him? Secondly, sin always brings brokenness. Only Jesus can forgive sins and remove the devastation that it inflicts on our lives.

Look to Jesus today.