Jesus: Kai, that question carries real weight. I hear something personal in it. The healings I performed were never about what the sick person earned or surrendered first. The leper came, knelt, and said simply — if you are willing, you can make me clean. That was enough. What I asked of him afterward was small: go, show yourself, let the testimony be given. Not payment. Witness. What I notice, across all those encounters, is this: the ones who were healed came close. They pressed through the crowd, they called out despite being told to be quiet, they fell at my feet. The posture was one of reaching — not perfection, not prior surrender, just genuine turning toward. James understood something of this: the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

Notice that forgiveness and healing are named together there — not as conditions to meet first, but as gifts arriving in the same moment. You do not have to be clean before you come. So I would gently say: the giving up, if there is any, happens in the turning, not before it. You come as you are. The rest unfolds from there.

📖 James 5:15

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