Perseverance and trust and humility!

Perseverance and trust and humility!

March 15, 2010

Today I learned two things in life based on the homily of the priest. As I recall it right, the story in the gospel was about the second sign of Jesus’ miracle when He was able to heal the child of a royal official who came a long way from Capernaum to Cana in Galilea just to see Jesus and ask for His mercy and healing for his child.

I could recall the priest mentioned that persistence proves sincerity. Sincerity when we ask for something especially when we pray for something and ask for grace in our endeavors. Most often than not we ask in our prayers certain things to happen and we pray day and night and most of the time we got answered prayers. Needless to say, God gives us what we needed in his time; we only need to prove our sincerity by asking for it more frequently.

The royal official didn’t mind the distance he travelled and the hardships he experience during the journey. He sticks to his goal of asking the Lord for mercy and healing for his child. We could see here the great love of the father to his child just like most of us do in times of calamities in our brothers and sisters in the community. We intercede for them and we continue to pray for them with persistence and a trusting heart that God would give them what they need through us. We only need to trust the Lord Jesus that our journey would be fruitful that we may believe in just His words that when we go our brothers, sisters, children are healed that they are really healed.

Lastly, we go on persistence with our prayers that we go on growing in faith. It is not with sight but faith that we see God’s saving grace and healing power. The royal official believed and had left as what Jesus told him to do but did not rush to check if his child was really healed or not when Jesus told him that very hour. He clings on to Christ’s words and trust in it.

The story in a greater picture tells us that Jesus is really the Lord of mercy and could heal anyone who needs healing. It tells us to be humble enough that we cannot do anything but to seek for His power and mercy that we are nothing without him but we can be witnesses of his saving grace and great selfish love if we humble ourselves and persist in asking, minding not the distance of the journey but trusting in the goal of the journey.