Wednesday, February 6, 2008

"Go...your son lives."


As I'm getting Bible study ready for tonight, I glean over this passage and am reminded about faith. I'm teaching from John 4:43-54 tonight. We have been going through the Gospel of John for a few months now and it has been fantastic. John's Gospel has so much to offer all people, regardless of spiritual maturity. Anyway, we are talking about the healing of the royal official's son tonight. This guy comes to Jesus asking him to heal his son. He know what he's been doing, he's heard of the signs and wonders of this hometown boy (they are in Galilee) and knew that he could help. When he asks Jesus to come back with him, pleads and begs him (vs. 49) Jesus simply responds, "Go, your son lives."

I wonder the look on this guys face. You're asking Jesus to come back with you to heal your son, and he tells you that he lives. He then takes Jesus at his word and goes home to see his son. There was no way of knowing that his son was going to be okay, he had to trust this guy Jesus who he had never met before from just his words.

And...he does.

And on his way back, his bondservants come to him telling him that his son is better and is alive. And when he asks him when his conditions improved, when do you think they said? Of course, right when Jesus spoke these words. There is a whole other discussion on the power of Christ to speak and make things live, but we will save that for another time.

That is faith. Jesus told this guy, "Go home. Trust that my words are powerful enough to heal your son. You won't have any proof of it right now, but just wait and see."

This is an exhortation to let us have faith in our Lord. Jump in. Let us trust Him at His Word. When he speaks, there is Life.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think this is awesome and true but so hard for people to realize. When I have taken that "jump", I had faith and wow, did Jesus Christ ever fulfill my expectations-more than I could have hoped.

Sarah said...

seriously...new post!

Sarah said...

post fool