Where Is My Faith?

 John 4: 43-54

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

⁴³ After the two days he left for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) ⁴⁵ When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.

⁴⁶ Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

⁴⁸ “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”

⁴⁹ The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰ “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” 

The man took Jesus at his word and departed. ⁵¹ While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. ⁵² When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

⁵³ Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.

⁵⁴ This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

In the letter to the Hebrews we read that "Faith is confident assurance concerning what we  hope for and conviction about things we do not see." (Heb 11: 1)  Certainly the royal official had this assurance, ignoring the objection of Jesus, so desperate was he to have his son cured.  This depth of faith moved Jesus to cure the boy and serves as a model for us.  So many times we pray without this strong conviction and wonder why our prayers are not answered...Part of the answer might be the lesson of FAITH. We need to learn it over and over, it seems,  How many times do we have to say, "Lord, I do believe; help my unbelief?"

Bro. Rene