Jesus was in Cana again when he did his second miracle. John 4:43-54. A royal official had a very sick son who was near death. He went to Jesus and said, "Lord, come down before my young child dies." Jesus told him, "Go on your way. You son lives."The official believed Jesus and started back home. On his way, his servants met him and told him that his son was alive. The man asked them what time the boy had gotten better and they said it was one in the afternoon of the day before that his fever left him. It was at that exact time that Jesus had told him that his son would live. He had believed Jesus could heal his son, and when he found that his son was indeed living, he and his whole household became believers.
This was no small deal. This man was a government official of King Herod Antipas who later had John the Baptist beheaded on his daughter's request to bring his head to her on a silver platter. Mark 6:21:29.
However, being a government official did not stop him from believing. Nor did it stop him from being a dad first. He loved his son. He was probably very distressed and afraid that he was going to lose his son. Did he wonder if he should take a chance and ask this man of Galilee that claimed to be the Son of God, to heal his son and see what would happen? What would happen to him and his family if he did that?
We don't know. What we do know is that if he had questions going through his mind that he could possibly get in trouble by asking Jesus to intervene, he was more concerned for his son to let anything stop him. And because of his hope, his son was healed and his whole family became believers.
Can we have that kind of faith today? Knowing all we do so many centuries later? It doesn't take much. In Luke 17:6 he says, "If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you."
That takes a lot of faith. Doesn't it? Or does it? Jesus says it doesn't. Just as the government official believed that Jesus could heal his son, we must have even the tiniest bit faith to ask God for those things we need and desire. And just as he did as this dad asked, he will do for us if we truly believe.
Oh, the answers to our prayers may not come as quickly as it did for this man. They may not always come just the way we want them, because God knows what is best for each of us. But the answers do come. They may be-yes, no, or wait. But they do come when God deems the time is right and in the way that they should be answered.
Do we have the faith of a mustard seed? We can. All it takes is trusting in Jesus and following him. And when we do, he sets our course on a straight path, going before us to light our way out of darkness. It is a journey that will eventually lead us home to him. All because we dared to first believe.
February 13, 2019 Promise: For we are God's masterpiece. Created in Christ Jesus so that we can do those things he prepared for us long ago. 1 Timothy 4:12
Hello Friends. I am glad you came by. Come back tomorrow for the third miracle of Jesus: The healing of the lame man. Have a blessed day!
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