Gospel for 06 March, 2007

After the two days he departed to Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 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. 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. 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. Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe." The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living. 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." 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. This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

There was an official from Capernaum whose son was deathly ill. He came to see Jesus and asked that He come to heal his son, his little boy. The child that brought a light to his eyes, that gave a bounce to his step, that made him stand just a mite taller for pride lay dying.

"But Jesus could help. He could heal. If only He would come to see my son... But Jesus said "Go. Your son will live." And so, I went. He doesn't lie. He tells the truth. I guess, I believed. And just when He told me that my boy would live, the fever broke."

The official from Capernaum believed Jesus' words. I wonder how many of us today would do so, if our child's life were at stake.

" Lord, I believe. Help Thou my unbelief!"