At His Word

Many of us have experienced times where we have wrestled with Jesus. In John 4 we read that there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum. This official pleaded with Jesus to come to his son before his son dies.

This royal official didn't believe in Jesus yet. He wanted to see a miracle. Jesus, being in the miracle business, gave him exactly what was needed to prove that he was who others were saying he was. Jesus replied to the man, "You may go. Your son will live."

There must have been something in the tone Jesus spoke with, for the pleading stopped and footsteps began. The Bible tells us that "The man took Jesus at his word and departed." After the official applied steps of faith to what Jesus had spoken, he was soon greeted with the good news that his son was healed. He was also greeted with the Good News that Jesus was real.

After our pleading, if we would simply stop fighting Jesus and take him at his word, applying steps of faith, we too would see the miracle of answered prayer. When you wrestle, have you ever noticed that you get too busy telling Jesus "ya but..."?

When need to take Jesus at his word. When he says he is going to do something, then he is going to do it! I think it is sometimes on those steps of faith we take, that our doubt turns to belief. Keep believing - take him at his word!