Can you trust and believe without the slightest hesitation that the Word of the Lord our God spoken to you will be as He said? For instance when He tells you all will be well, through scripture, through men and women of prayer and great faith, through His priests. Will you still struggle to believe that your ailing daughter, son, spouse will be well again? That you will give birth to a healthy baby even though the markers for down syndrome are high? That your aged parent will survive the operation? And many other scenarios..
The demands of such a faith is simple when you put our Lord Jesus Christ above all and everything. For He alone makes the impossible, possible! He is the great I AM possible. In His great mercy and love, He answers all our prayers. For with and through Him there is no loss. For even to die in Him is to rise to new life with Him. He creates all things new, therefore we have every reason to rejoice in Him come what may. Amen
First reading
Isaiah 65:17-21 †
Be glad and rejoice for ever at what I am creating
Thus says the Lord: Now I create new heavens and a new earth, and the past will not be remembered, and will come no more to men’s minds. Be glad and rejoice for ever and ever for what I am creating, because I now create Jerusalem ‘Joy’ and her people ‘Gladness.’ I shall rejoice over Jerusalem and exult in my people. No more will the sound of weeping or the sound of cries be heard in her; in her, no more will be found the infant living a few days only, or the old man not living to the end of his days. To die at the age of a hundred will be dying young; not to live to be a hundred will be the sign of a curse. They will build houses and inhabit them, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Gospel
John 4:43-54
Go home: your son will live
Jesus left Samaria for Galilee. He himself had declared that there is no respect for a prophet in his own country, but on his arrival the Galileans received him well, having seen all that he had done at Jerusalem during the festival which they too had attended.
He went again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a court official there whose son was ill at Capernaum and, hearing that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went and asked him to come and cure his son as he was at the point of death. Jesus said, ‘So you will not believe unless you see signs and portents!’ ‘Sir,’ answered the official ‘come down before my child dies.’ ‘Go home,’ said Jesus ‘your son will live.’ The man believed what Jesus had said and started on his way; and while he was still on the journey back his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive. He asked them when the boy had begun to recover. ‘The fever left him yesterday’ they said ‘at the seventh hour.’ The father realised that this was exactly the time when Jesus had said, ‘Your son will live’; and he and all his household believed.
This was the second sign given by Jesus, on his return from Judaea to Galilee.
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