{"id":1481,"date":"2017-09-26T20:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2017-09-26T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T01:25:09","slug":"the-leper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/the-leper\/","title":{"rendered":"Then He Touch Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unclean! Unclean! <\/span><\/h5>\n
I cry out to the crowd\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
Running away, they shutter and bow<\/span><\/h5>\n
Turning from me, fear strikes their hearts<\/span><\/h5>\n
Then suddenly without warning I look up in a start\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
This man they call, Good-Shepherd,\u00a0calls to\u00a0me…<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cSon of Adam, would thou be made whole?\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n
Shocked! Frozen in time\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
I looked at him and said, “Are you out of your mind?”<\/span><\/h5>\n
Then, He, Touched me; tender and kind\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
Unclean I cried, do not touch me, or you’ll die\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
Slowly suffering, rotting, decay; I sighed\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
With no thought for His being, the Good-Shepherd laid hold<\/span><\/h5>\n
Drawing me near, he said, \u201cBehold, <\/span><\/h5>\n
I make all things new! <\/span>Now leprosy, undo this man and set him free.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n
Looking down at my hands, new skin appears, and\u00a0then my eyes overflow\u00a0with tears\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
Dropping the rags that held me bound\u2026I\u2019m clean,\u00a0brand new, and\u00a0sing-out with new sounds\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
Joyful songs of ecstasy…\u00a0I’m free, I’m\u00a0found…<\/h5>\n
I shout and jump and run about\u2026then turning to Good-Shepherd I bow\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
I\u2019m no longer afraid for His well-being\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
I can\u2019t believe what I am seeing\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
Humbly and with great joy\u2026I hug Him and say\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
Thank you, Good-Shepherd, for what you\u2019ve given me today\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
New life, New Hope, New Soul, New Born\u2026how can I ever repay?<\/span><\/h5>\n
He looks at me with eyes of grace; love shrouds me with a tender embrace\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
No longer shunned from the human race\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n
Loved, cleansed, body, soul and spirit, completely whole\u2026just in time, one word from the Master and Jesus is mine!<\/span><\/h5>\n
~M.S. O\u2019Neill September 26, 2017<\/span><\/h5>\n
Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. \u201cI am willing,\u201d<\/span> he said. \u201cBe clean!\u201d<\/span> Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy. <\/span><\/em>Matthew 8:3 <\/span>(NIV)<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n

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Unclean! Unclean! I cry out to the crowd\u2026 Running away, they shutter and bow Turning from me, fear strikes their hearts Then suddenly without warning I look up in a start\u2026 This man they call, Good-Shepherd,\u00a0calls to\u00a0me… \u201cSon of Adam, would thou be made whole?\u201d Shocked! Frozen in time\u2026 I looked at him and said,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-nT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}