Day 33- Matthew 9-11

Well, if I saw all of these miracles, I would have no choice but to believe too.  But we are asked to believe and are not sure that we are seeing these miracles so regularly.  Henry points out that some competency is required to come to the Lord,

Note, Even the halt and the lame may be brought to Christ, and they shall not be rejected by him. If we do as well as we can, he will accept of us. Christ had an eye to their faith. Little children cannot go to Christ themselves, but he will have an eye to the faith of those that bring them, and it shall not be in vain.

And, on how you should notice these miracles,

Note, Others’ mercies should be our praises, and we should give him thanks for them, for we are members one of another. Though few of this multitude were so convinced, as to be brought to believe in Christ, and to follow him, yet they admired him, not as God, or the Son of God, but as a man to whom God had given such power. Note, God must be glorified in all the power that is given to men to do good. For all power is originally his; it is in him, as the Fountain, in men, as the cisterns.

On Matthew 10, Henry indicates,

This chapter is an ordination sermon, which our Lord Jesus preached, when he advanced his twelve disciples to the degree and dignity of apostles. In the close of the foregoing chapter, he had stirred up them and others to pray that God would send forth labourers, and here we have an immediate answer to that prayer: while they are yet speaking he hears and performs. What we pray for, according to Christ’s direction, shall be given,

Have you ever heard a priest or bishop be ordained?  It is quite a rivaling event and this sounds just like it.

Are you revved up for the rest of Matthew and the Psalms?  See you tomorrow on that.