HEALING OF FAITH! ~ CookingFood.Org

“HONEY FROM THE ROCK”

Monday, 4th July 2016,

Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time

Hos 2: 16-18, 21-22;

Ps 144: 2-9;

Mt 9: 18-26

HEALING OF FAITH!

Today in the Gospel, we see two instances of miraculous healing. These were people sought Jesus to be healed. We come across many people who question God’s love for them because God did not heal them. There are others who question their own faith...they feel like if they had more faith God would have healed them.

Steve at the age of 18, was in a car crash that left him with brain injury and a speech impediment. Years later, he fell off a roof and was paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors said Steve would never walk again. But Steve said God had told him this was his time to be healed. His faith was absolute; he didn’t express a single doubt that God was about to heal him. On the last day of a meeting, Steve’s turn came. He went forward and sat in a row of people where the faith-healer touched his forehead and then a group of people prayed over him but his condition was unchanged. After this, people were very concerned for Steve. They knew he was completely convinced that he would be healed and wondered what would happen to his faith. When they found Steve after the meeting, they were amazed. He was disappointed but his faith was unshaken. In his halting voice, Steve told, “It wasn’t my time to be healed but one day I will walk and run.”

Indeed, we have a miracle here. The miracle was not in the man’s legs; it was a miracle of his soul. The light of Jesus was shining out of his heart. After all, a physical healing is always temporary. But spiritual healing, a healing of the faith, lasts for eternity.

Prayer: Lord, heal me spiritually. Amen.