Day 238- Believing is Seeing
📖Daily Reading
John 3-4
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📝 Reflection
John 4: 48-50
Jesus asked, “Will you never believe in me unless you see miraculous signs and wonders?”
The official pleaded, “Lord, please come now before my little boy dies.” Then Jesus told him. “Go back home. Your son will live!” And the man believed what Jesus said and started home.
The way humans operate is to see first and then believe. Of course God’s way it is opposite or higher than our way. Jesus uses this sign to help us understand. He is traveling to Judea from Cana when a government official comes from Capernaum to seek Jesus’ help for his dying son. He sees and hears that Jesus is willing to travel and doing miracles. He believes that the miracles must be done in person and before witnesses. Jesus takes this opportunity to show that we are limited by time and space and our senses and logic, but he is not.
In this exchange we learn that the official believed and immediately stopped pleading and began his journey back home. Maybe because he is also a man in authority he was able to understand more quickly than another. But never the less, he believes before he has evidence, before he sees. The story goes on and shares with us that the man’s servants begin the journey to find him. Their paths cross as he is on his way home and they let him know that his son is better. He asks, when did this happen. They told him the time and that his sons fever disappeared at once. The man realized it was the moment Jesus said the words “Your son will live.” Then not only did this man believe in Jesus but his whole household.
I put myself in the shoes of this parent whose son is dying. On the surface it might be easy to say, well he said he believed but did he really? As a mom, I know that if my son were dying and some one told me they would live and to go home, there is no way I would do that unless I believed it. Parents and the love they have for their kids is relentless, determined, they will go to the ends of the earth and do what it takes to help their children. If he didn’t believe he would not have relented and headed home.
The confirmation and good news that he got from his servants before he saw his son for himself was evidence of his belief in the ultimate truth. Belief needs to precede seeing. I can imagine that his servants who where with the son and seeing him dying and then in a moment was better couldn’t believe what they were seeing. It likely didn’t make sense, their brains couldn’t comprehend. Although in this case they might have, because they likely knew who their master was traveling to see and why. So they may have likely put two and two together and they were anxious and excited to give the good news to their boss and headed out to meet him, so he wouldn’t have to wait to see his son before finding out the good news.
There is such confirming love and power in this story. The witnessing power of belief, that allows our mind to see before we see. We are energetic beings and we carry and transmute our energy to each other. If we in our modern age can believe in and trust that words can be spoken or typed on one device and appear instantly on another device thousands of miles away, why do we have a hard time believing in God and miracles?
It seems to me the bigger and bolder we can believe the more miraculous we will actually see which only increases our belief and faith. The power of witnessing and confirming to each other also increases our belief and experience of the miraculous. He was met on the road with the good news of the miracle and he still hadn’t seen it yet, and even though it was his son, he believed even more.
One of my favorite ministry leaders, Harrell Riley, whom I had the pleasure of serving under for a few years always could be heard saying over and over again to encourage and increase belief, faith and bring about miracles “if you don’t see it before you see it you will never see it”. This has stuck with me and continues to encourage me and Jesus and the Bible and my personal experience also confirms it. I have believed before seeing, trusted and waited expectantly and believed it then when I saw it much more readily but not any less gratefully and humbly.
Conversely, if this concept is true, when I believe for negative or less than favorable outcomes to I encourage and ask for this. Our brains are wired for confirmation bias. It will look and see evidence that supports our beliefs. So be careful what you believe. What ever you believe you are right. Believing in God, love, miracles, and the power of belief seems like a win win win to me! It is also as real to me as anything. We are creators of our reality.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
How are you creating your own reality? What are you believing and seeing?
📖Tomorrows Reading
John 5
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