...blatent disreguard of an order!

...as i read this story of Christ healing this guy, and then he gives the guy a simple command... and the guy totally blows Him off, i get pretty frustrated!! sure, i can understand this guys excitment, and desire to share what happened to Him. but, if somebody walked up to me, and healed me of such a life altering issue as this guy had, and then told me to do something, i would hope that i would have the appreciation, and respect for them to do what they say!!! ...the crazy thing to me is though, and probably the real reason it's such a sore spot for me, is cause i know i do this same thing Every day!!! Christ gave His life to redeem my soul from hell!! that's INFINITLY bigger then being healed from blindness or deafness!!! and yet, how often do i blatently disreguard His directions to me??? i don't mean to let this beat me down... in fact, i'll try to recieve it as a challenge!!! He has done so much for me, the least i can do is obey His commands!!
...i also find myself wondering why Jesus told Him not to say anything in the first place. i know that in the story of Christ healing a guy from leprosy, he tells him to go to the temple, and show himself to the priests, and then to make the proper sacrafice for having been healed of leprosy. i heard a teacher one time mention how blown away the priests would have been by this!!! more than likely, they had never been given the chance to offer that sacrfice on someones behalf before!!! what a testimony it would then be to the leaders of the jewish religous system, that Christ had sent this guy who He'd healed like this!! ...but in this text, mark 7:36, i don't get why He told him not to say anything!!! and, there were other times He did this!!! ...i wonder if He just wanted those people to keep those experiences as some sort of personal deal, between Him and them!! in that case... i wonder if there's things that He does in our lives that He wants us to keep to ourselves, just as something special between us and our Father!! ...just something i was considering.

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