Have Faith In God, Your Miracle Is On The Way

Genesis 17:1,9-10,15-22
Matthew 8:1-4

With the way the world is going, I think we all need miracles in our lives. sometimes, miracles help us to confirm our faith, or just to wake us up to the proof of the possibilities of God’s endless love and compassion for us.
The faith of the leper in today‘s gospel is quite remarkable. Apart from the fact that he was despised, shunned, ignored, segregated, and feared in fact, he was nothing to those who walked past him; he was walking now breaking the rules by walking down the streets.

Place yourself on that street with the leper and Jesus. Can you feel the joy in the leper’s entire being as Jesus affirms that he will heal him? And the leper knowing that Jesus should have been tending the crowds, and not tending to the leper! Jesus went to him, answered him, and healed him. And now the leper can return to being a member of his community. Can you imagine the feeling of love and joy in the loving embraces he received from a community who may have forgotten him, written him off because everyone knew there was no coming back from leprosy?

We all want that experience of divine healing – if not for us, maybe for a family member or friend. We pray for it, we ask God for that special miracle. And we wait. Sometimes patiently, sometimes not. At Jesus’ table, there are no outcasts – all are welcome, all are loved, and all are special and valuable.

Fr Joseph Osho