Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners. He even invited a customs collector named Levi (Matthew) to become a Disciple. Like a doctor making house calls, the Lord came to heal people, physically and spiritually. He expelled whatever interfered with holiness. The Lord continues to teach with authority and to heal as needed, asking only that we have faith and cooperate! After a group of four men lowered a paralytic through the roof to reach Jesus, some scribes decried the Lord’s forgiveness of sin as blasphemy (irreverence or claiming equality with God). Jesus then instructed the man to pick up his mat and walk. If the Lord withdrew to deserted places, people found Him. When we gather with others seeking nearness to the Lord, do we also extend a personal invitation to make Himself at home with us?