Help us to believe at the sound of your voice even before we see signs and wonders. We have all of these issues that we want to entrust to you. We say, "Sir, come down before my child dies." But we don't need to make things contingent on that whole journey where we pull you away from the path you are on. We don't even need to be there ourselves when the wonder happens. Your signs and wonders are not relative to ourselves as observers. They can happen whether or not we witness them. Healing can flow even if we aren't the instrumental agent that brings you into the situation. But while you don't ask our participation or even our immediate awareness you do ask for our faith.
Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.”
The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
Jesus, you ask us to believe you enough to leave everything in your hands. You want us to trust you enough to take our hands off of these situations. If the official insisted you came with him to his son it would be an act of fear. It would be an act that couldn't fully entrust his cares to you. But you call us to cast all of our cares on you. You care for us, and we need to trust that (cf. 1 Pet. 5:7).
Your signs and wonders are just the prelude to the new heavens and the new earth that you want to create. Things are going to be so good that we won't even remember the sufferings which we now have such trouble letting go.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness
in what I create;
For I create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight;
I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and exult in my people.
We need to understand that this is the desire of your heart. Only then will we really be able to cast our cares on you. Only when we do so can you truly rescue us and draw us clear.
"Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper."
You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
We need to trust in your love for us, Jesus. When we believe this that love breaks into the world and begins building the new heavens and the new earth even now in our midst. For each and every care we entrust to you we hear, "Your son will live," and not only we, but our whole household, and even the whole world, come to believe.
At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.
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