A faith so great that God was amazed. Luke 7 is filled with recounts of miracle after miracle. But the verse that stood out to me was verse 9. Jesus was on the way to the house of a Centurion. A pagan, yet a man of character who had a good reputation with the Jews. As Jesus was making his way, the Centurion stopped Him to say that he believed that if He spoke the word, his servant would be healed. This stopped Jesus in His tracks. The majority of His time He has been haranguing with the lawyers and religious leaders about the legality of His miracles; about if He was the Messiah. Yet, a pagan is the one who makes Him wonder.
Are we guilty of trying to figure God out? Should we, rather, spend our time letting our faith work in us so that our reputations precede us? Maybe to the point that when we do stand before Jesus and ask in faith, others have already interceded and touched God for us. Let us have such a faith in Him that He marvels.
Keith Mathews
Thursday
Luke 7
