Luke
5:17-26
One day
as Jesus was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from
every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there, and the
power of the Lord was with him for healing. And some men brought on a stretcher
a man who was paralyzed; they were trying to bring him in and set him in his
presence. But not finding a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went
up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the tiles into the
middle in front of Jesus. When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “As for you,
your sins are forgiven.”
Then the
scribes and Pharisees began to ask themselves, “Who is this who speaks
blasphemies? Who but
God alone can forgive sins?” Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them in
reply, “What are you thinking in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your
sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may know that the
Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–he said to the one who was
paralyzed, “I say to you, rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.”
He stood
up immediately before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went home,
glorifying God. Then astonishment seized them all and they glorified God, and,
struck with awe, they said, “We have seen incredible things today.
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Reflection:
Do you
always ask Jesus to increase your faith?
We all
have our own set of sickness: physical and emotional sickness. Whatever
sickness that we may have Jesus can cure it all, all He ask from us is to have
faith. The same faith as the four men
who brought the paralyzed man to Jesus.
We always
have to remember that nothing is impossible for Jesus. He can make all things
possible including the impossible! What He only asks from us is to have faith,
faith that endures and faith that is willing to wait.
The four
men and the paralyzed man had that enduring faith. They braved the crowd and
the difficulties before them so that they could go through Jesus. How many of
us have that kind of faith?
We therefore
must not forget to always ask the Good Lord to increase our faith for the
simple reason that we are feeble and weak. In this difficult and tortuose
jungle called life there are times that we tend to be overtaken by our own set
of life challenges.
Prayer:
Dear God
we ask you to increase our faith, we are weak and susceptible to the challenges
of life. We know that you are always there for us ever ready to help us conquer
our challenges. Give us the same faith of the four men who brought the
paralytic to you. Give us the same patience and endurance of the paralytic as
well.
We ask
this in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus. Amen. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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