Faith
“It was 1130 in the morning and he didn’t have much time left. I knew it when I saw his ashen, skin and dull eyes gazing at nothing. Sweat lined his youthful face and his breathing was as ragged as a beggar’s robe. My sword and scabbard dug into my thigh as I ran towards town square; I had to hurry there wasn’t much time left! After twenty years of brutal battles, long, bloody days and longer, bloodier nights, I felt the weight of the world on my armored shoulders. People in this town worked thru pain and suffering driven by some “force”, it was buried deep in these Christians, in this armpit of a city; they called it Faith. It drove them to die for an ideal, it kept them going in the face of oppressive living, no matter how hungry or poor or oppressed they got, they seemed to somehow, get thru it, it was this FAITH that did it for them and today Faith was getting my thru. Everybody in my camp seemed to believe there was no way my servant would survive another minute, everybody believed that….but me. I just knew he would make it and it was not just my belief in something I couldn’t see, it was belief in a man.
I caught wind of this “prophet and teacher” listening to those stiff Pharisees griping and plotting against him. I read the Holy Scriptures for myself, THIS man had to be the one I read about, yet most of his own people didn’t accept him! His words spoke to me and most everyone else in the throngs of thousands that follow him. I couldn’t admit it, but I was his disciple too and I only knew one thing: this man was who he claimed he was and that was enough for me! And I needed him now.
It didn’t take long to find him conducting his “daily business”; teaching, preaching and healing! Protocol meant nothing to me, right now, I knew who it was I was talking to and I didn’t care about anything else. I pushed past his inner circle of disciples and dropped to one knee bowing my head as I worshipped this man with one word; “LORD!”, I heard myself say.
“…I need your help. There’s this kid, he’s worked for me for years and I love him, just like he was my own. But he’s really sick, I know death is not far and just don’t want to lose him. And…”
He interrupted me, speaking with the clarity of a man clothed in the power and authority of God; “No problem, let’s go to your house so I can heal him.”
But I couldn’t let him do that. On my knee, at the feet of the man I KNEW to be the SON of God, there was NO way I was going let him walk to my home. And I told him so.
“No Lord! “I’m not worthy enough for you to visit my home. You’re the Son of the Living GOD! You can just speak healing over him right here. I know how authority works, You and I, have authority. When I tell one of my soldiers to do something, I don’t need to check on them, I KNOW it will get done, Period! I don’t need to see it to believe it.”
Silence, as all eyes were fixed on the humble Teacher. I stared down at the dusty ground, on bended knee, my tears mixing with the dust into mud as a breeze cradled my face.
I heard His voice, soaked full of love and adoration, “People, I want you to know this kind of Faith is rare! I haven’t seen anything like it, ever!”
He laid his hand on my shoulder as I gazed into his tear soaked eyes and gently he told me, “Go home my friend, your servant is going to be fine!” I hugged Him and took off running, the Sun beaming directly overhead!
I ran for close to 15 minutes before my neighbor stopped me and said, “Your servant is cured! It’s a miracle!!” he yelled.
Before I burst thru the door, I heard him behind me, “…happened right at noon! He woke up, yawned and wanted to eat!”
It was now almost 1230.
Final Word: You don’t have to build up your Faith for Jesus to come; Jesus will come, to BUILD UP your Faith! Amen.
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