Great Faith

5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, asking for help. 6 "Lord," he said, "my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly." 7 Jesus said to him, "Shall I come and heal him?" 8 The centurion replied, "Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." 10 When Jesus heard this, He was amazed and said to those following Him, "Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that very hour.

Matthew 8:5-13

Today I feel a bit like this Centurion did more than 2,000 years ago as he came to the feet of Jesus and humbly asked for His help. Just like the Centurion felt unworthy of even having Jesus come to his house in order to heal his servant; I feel unworthy and so undeserving of God’s presence and God’s blessing and God’s amazing, unconditional love that He so graciously offers to all who look His way. I feel so unworthy and yet I ask Jesus, once again to perform a miracle in my life today. I humbly come to the feet of Jesus this morning and start the day by asking Him to somehow align His love with the wreck of my life and with all of my imperfections in such a way that the world around me could somehow see Him through me. The overwhelming truth in all of these seemingly empty words is that He does and He will and that Jesus is so unbelievably faithful to all who humbly come on bended knee and as ask for help, knowing, and having great faith that He will answer. Come to Jesus today with the same faith as this centurion did so many years ago and just see how He will respond.