Kerr's Korner
Mary Mallon
By John Kerr
March 27th, as I do from time to time, I looked at things that happened on the current date in history. You may not be familiar with Mary Mallon by her given name, but I imagine you might have heard of “typhoid Mary”. March 27th, 1915 she was quarantined for the second and final time. She lived in isolation on North Brother Island, a small island in New York's East River, until her death in 1938 at the age of sixty-nine.
I thought about the lepers in the Bible. The word leprosy appears more than 30 times in scripture. If found to be infected, “the leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp”.
People couldn’t cure leprosy, God did. People weren’t supposed to touch lepers, Jesus did. Luke 5: 12While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”13Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.14Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
The most important issue is sin, which isolates us from God. Jesus is the great healer. I John 1: 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
By John Kerr
March 27th, as I do from time to time, I looked at things that happened on the current date in history. You may not be familiar with Mary Mallon by her given name, but I imagine you might have heard of “typhoid Mary”. March 27th, 1915 she was quarantined for the second and final time. She lived in isolation on North Brother Island, a small island in New York's East River, until her death in 1938 at the age of sixty-nine.
I thought about the lepers in the Bible. The word leprosy appears more than 30 times in scripture. If found to be infected, “the leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp”.
People couldn’t cure leprosy, God did. People weren’t supposed to touch lepers, Jesus did. Luke 5: 12While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”13Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.14Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
The most important issue is sin, which isolates us from God. Jesus is the great healer. I John 1: 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
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