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Search me through and through, O Lord. Explore my sin-bruised being and bind up my injuries (whether gained through fault or folly).
As I surrender to your skilled hands and healing touch, your fingers strip away my protections and self-illusions, probing the wounds of my heart, the raw sores of my soul, my aching disappointments and mutilated hopes. And then with patient care and Spirit’s balm, you nurse me back to sound wholeness in you, restoring my vitality and giving new exercise to my so-long-crippled love.
After his baptism, Jesus went to Capernaum, a fishing village on the northwest shore of Lake Gennesaret. From this home base, he taught and preached throughout Galilee (Matthew 4:12-13; Mark 2:1). Capernaum was located in the area settled by the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun in the northern kingdom. This territory had been invaded and occupied by Assyria in 734 b.c. and was flooded with gentiles, while many of the Jewish population had been deported. When…
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