He Moved

"Then he [Jesus] said to the paralytic, 'Get up, take your mat and go home.'"  Matthew 9:6b

This required a response from the man.  He had to do something he had either never done before, hadn't done in a long time, or didn't think he could do.  He had to do something no one else thought he could do either.  It was probably scary.  It could be painful, and he didn't know exactly what would happen--how it would all turn out.  But he knew what he had heard.  And he did what he was told.  He obeyed.  But more than obeying, at some point before that he had to have believed.  He had to have trusted.  Otherwise he wouldn't have moved.  But he did.  He got up.  He went home.  Can you imagine the look on his families' faces when he walked in the door?

Jesus spoke and he moved.