Have You Been Healed?

Mark 1:40-45 ESV
(40) And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean."
(41) Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, "I will; be clean."
(42) And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.
(43) And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once,
(44) and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them."
(45) But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.

There are a couple of things about this passage that really strike me. One is that Jesus was willing to touch a leper. Spend some time in the Pentateuch and you will see that Jews took leprosy very, very seriously. By doing this Jesus made Himself ceremonially unclean, yet He still reached out and touched this man. I know that He did the same thing with me, and unclean sinner.

Note verse 45. Jesus had "sternly charged" him in verse 43 not to speak to anyone about what happened. Yet this man could not help but talk to people.

Meanwhile, we have the Great Commission to go and speak to people about Jesus. Yet it is a struggle for us to do so. What does this say about us? Do we really believe that we have been healed of anything? Do we really believe that a miracle has taken place in our lives?