When Jesus
entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him and appealed to him, saying,
“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully.” He said to
him, “I will come and cure him.” The centurion said in reply, “Lord, I am not
worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will
be healed. For I too am a man subject to authority, with soldiers subject to
me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come here,’ and he
comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it. When Jesus heard this, he
was amazed and said to those following him, “Amen, I say to you, in no one in
Israel have I found such faith. I say to you, many will come from the east
and the west, and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the banquet in
the Kingdom of heaven.”
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Reflection:
Do you ask Jesus to give you the gift of faith?
What brought
the centurion to Jesus? It was his great faith, when the centurion went to
Jesus to ask for help for his servant he had nothing except his great faith. He
firmly believed in Jesus power to heal and he used his great faith to convince
Jesus to cure his servant.
Who is this
centurion? He is a roman officer that has people under his command, he also is
not a follower yet he has great faith in Jesus. Don’t we want this kind of
faith as well? Of course, we all want our faith to be like the centurions.
Therefore, we must prayerfully ask Jesus to give us the same faith. But do we
ask Jesus to give us the gift of faith? Is the gift of faith always part of our
prayer request to Jesus?
If Jesus
could give that great faith to a non-follower like the centurion why can’t He
give us the same faith considering that we are his followers? Faith is a gift
that Jesus freely and generously gives to anyone who humbly ask for it.
What is our
usual prayer to Jesus? Is it always to have the things of this world? Let us
not forget that the things of this world are passing and temporary. While faith
will not pass it will always be with us.
Faith will be
with us until the end, it will accompany us in our journey beyond this world
going to the eternal Kingdom of the King of Kings no other than Jesus Himself.
Give us your
gift of faith O Lord Jesus. Most especially the person who is reading this
reflection right now. Amen. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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