Gospel: John 4:43-54
43 After the two days he departed to Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself
testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when he came to
Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in
Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast. 46 So he came again
to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Caper'na-um
there was an official whose son was ill. 47 When he heard that Jesus had
come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his
son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Jesus therefore said to him,
"Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe." 49 The
official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 50 Jesus
said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that
Jesus spoke to him and went his way. 51 As he was going down, his servants met
him and told him that his son was living. 52 So he asked them the hour when he
began to mend, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the
fever left him." 53 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said
to him, "Your son will live"; and he himself believed, and all his
household. 54 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from
Judea to Galilee.
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Reflection:
How profound is your faith in Jesus?
To have faith is to believe in something that you don’t see yet. The
official in the gospel who begged Jesus to heal his sick son has this kind of
faith. He wanted Jesus to go and personally heal his son who at that time was
near death.
But Jesus did not gave in to his request, Jesus simply told the official,
“Go; your son will live.” So he went home without Jesus but with faith in the
words of Jesus in his heart. And when he arrived home his son was already
recovering.
To believe in something that we don’t see yet is very difficult to do
most especially for those who have feeble faith. But for those who have faith,
they will believe no matter the odds against them. If the official in our
gospel did not believe in Jesus his son would surely not been healed. But he
believed with faith!
We all have our own petitions before Jesus. He asks us nothing but to
believe with faith, to believe with faith on something that we don’t see yet.
And to believe and have faith even if others would not believe us.
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