The Lord Jesus Christ on this extraordinary occasion, then reproves the host as well as the guests. ‘I know you,’ the Lord in effect said to that chief ruler and Pharisee, ‘and you shouldn't operate like this.
Christ came to help those who nobody else would help, those who are incapable of helping themselves. When we call out to him, we do not call as those who are capable of helping themselves a little, but need some extra help from him. We call to him as ‘the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind’, those who have nothing to offer him. And of course we are all in that category. Spiritually speaking, we are all poor, destitute, blind, deaf, and halt. That is the true meaning of his healing miracles. Apart from his compassion which they revealed, they were also pictures of his spiritual work in us, and they show how God views us before we are converted. You see, the message repeats all over again. It's all about how you come to God. Come as somebody who is poor. Say to God, ‘I have got nothing. I have got no spiritual life. I am a spiritually bankrupt. I have sinned away my years.’ Come as somebody who is lame and maimed. ‘I cannot pray and I am cut off, and so far away.’ Come as someone who is blind. ‘Oh Lord, I don't understand the Bible. I don't understand spiritual things. This is the state I am in. Just forgive me, Lord, and receive me and give me a new life.’ That is the spirit in which we must come. That is the approach that God will bless. Come to him, friends, and give him your life and ask to be his. And if you come in a humble, needy spirit, believing in Jesus Christ as the only way your sins could be forgiven, he will receive you.