"... so he touched her hand... the fever left her... and she arose and served..."
God's healing touch in our life is proclaimed through the witness of that same healing touch.
The attributes of the kingdom - salvation, healing, abundant life, and eternal security - are given that we would serve others. Plain and simple. Love one another as I have loved you. If a person receives a charism from Jesus and does nothing with it, it is good for nothing - of no more use than a person who fills a gas tank and then parks the car in a junk yard.
One may question the authenticity of the experience if one can't see the results of it.
God touches us - affiliates with our sin - and completely switches out, heart for Heart - our infirmity for his Eternity. Our fevers leave us. They have no power over us on us when defeated by the power of his Omnipotent Invasion. They are mystically magnetized into the crossbeams of Calvary and we become infused, filled, and empowered with an eschatological foretaste of heaven - where there is no longer any sickness, pain, or sorrow.
How does one respond to such a spiritual transference - darkness for Light, death for Life, clay for Gold, humanity for Deity? Is is through worship, through the offering of works from a grateful heart. This is not a personal, me and Jesus - me in the seat and thee on the Throne - kind of worship (though there is a place for that). The worship expressed by Peter's mother-in-law was tangible. It was seen and experienced. She served.
And the residue of her healing gave testimony to Christ through her service to others.
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