Jesus Reaches for You | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | August 31, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. |
| 0:05.8 | Mark chapter 1, verse 41. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.3 | Jesus Reaches for You was written by Karen Huang and read by Joyce Dinkins. |
| 0:23.1 | Mark, Chapter 1, verses 40 through 45. |
| 0:28.7 | A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees. |
| 0:35.6 | If you are willing, you can make me clean. Jesus was indignant. He reached out his |
| 0:44.2 | hand and touched the man. I am willing, he said, be clean. Immediately, the leprosy left him and he was cleansed. |
| 0:56.1 | Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning. |
| 1:00.4 | See that you don't tell this to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest, |
| 1:07.3 | and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing |
| 1:11.2 | as a testimony to them. |
| 1:14.8 | Instead, he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. |
| 1:20.1 | As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, |
| 1:24.1 | but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from |
| 1:32.4 | everywhere. Jesus reaches for you, written by Karen Huang. Letty, a cleaner in an office building, was known for walking fast, |
| 1:48.1 | really fast. In doing so, she could easily avoid people. Wounded by poverty and accustomed to |
| 1:56.1 | condescension, she passed others with one hand reflexively, covering part of her face. |
| 2:02.6 | Her shame, in her words, over not being like normal, beautiful, educated people, was profoundly deep. |
| 2:11.0 | When a woman at work extended her friendship, Lettie began to heal. |
| 2:21.5 | A man with leprosy lived with a shame perhaps deeper than Lettys in Matthew chapter 1. His disease rendered him revolting and ceremonially unclean |
| 2:29.4 | by standards of the mosaic law, separating him from mainstream society. |
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