walking without knowing

It is a great day to be working at a church. Things are slow around the office. There is no bible study this week because we have a Halloween party instead. We have no 5th Quarter. No Six Flags. Life is good.

So I think what I want to do is to keep coming back to that story in John where Jesus heals this guy's son. Apparently, the guy was an official, and apparently, the kid was a long ways away from Jesus-lying sick on a bed with a rough fever. But the dad was desperate and went in search for this Jesus and he walked away with nothing but a promise. Just words from Jesus claiming that everything was going to be okay. "Your son will live" was how he decided to put it. Pretty direct, but no tangible evidence.

So you see this guy turn and walk away. He has no clue whats going to come of all this. He just goes. And he has to walk quite awhile (a day and a half, I think) before he gets word that his boy's fever left. It had left at about one o'clock-right when Jesus told the official that his son would live.

Now isn't that something?

This guy just goes walking without proof. He has to wonder and hope and basically walk on whatever faith he might have had left in his system.

Don't you think that Jesus must have been revealing something about God in all of this? Don't you think this must have been the point? Jesus makes tons of promises. But we don't always know how it will work out immediately. Jesus still comes through, but we might have to walk awhile without knowing.

I thought that was pretty key for me. I think that really shows me something about this Jesus I sort of, kind of understood in the back of my mind, but God has used this miracle to really reveal himself to me in a profound way.

It is pretty cool-pretty interesting to see the God of the Universe doing stuff like this for us, for me and for you.

If you want to hear the message that inspired this little posts-head here to listen to Kris McDaniel from Trinity Vineyard talk on the subject.

-tatum