Yes Lord we are often an obstinate people, neither accepting of the word and the promises made by our heavenly Father nor recognising Your Hand in all that is good and done for us. We have been blind by allowing our sins to control us.
Jesus my Lord, let me instead be persistent in my faith. Knowing without a doubt that You are the promise fulfilled. Let me not be discouraged when obstacles come my way, but to view them as challenges and opportunities to grow. Free me from all my sins that I may love and serve You all the days of my life, Amen.
FIRST READING
Isaiah 65:17–21
GOSPEL
John 4:43–54
At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. While the man was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live. He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, “The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.” The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he and his whole household came to believe. Now this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.
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