MIRACLE WORKER

Mark 6:56
“…believe the works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
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I suddenly collapsed with fever at 40 deg C. I felt very week and looked pale. I was immediately rushed to the hospital and spent the next 10 days in the pediatric ward. At a very young age of 6, I was diagnosed to have contracted H-fever, an acute infectious disease characterized by high fever and believed to be caused by a virus related to those that caused dengue fever. All those days, my mother would be beside me. Since the church is just a walking distance from the hospital, she would go there everyday and pray for me and my immediate healing. She would talk almost everyday with the doctors, believing in them that they can work on curing me of the disease.

Throughout our lives, we would rely on people to cure us, to teach us, to protect us. We believe in their capability to do such things because of the title they possess. If such is the case, then why can’t we believe in the works that can be done to our lives by God? We are like the Pharisees who just focused on what Jesus said and not on things he did.

The works which our Lord is referring to are His miracles, through which God's power is made manifest. Jesus presents His words and His works as forming a unity with the Father, with the miracles confirming His words and His words explaining the meaning of the miracles. If no one can deny the fact of the miracles, it is only right for Him to accept the truth of the words.

To do good works is never wrong. All the works of Jesus were good. He never did anything that was unrighteous. There are many who reject Christ and his message today but let us pray that we may have open minds to believe the many signs by which God reveals His love to us each day.

Jesus, you came from God, and died so that we would see and understand. We thank you for the sacrifice you made for our sakes, and for revealing the Way, the Truth and the Life. We bless and praise you as we prepare to celebrate Passion Sunday and Holy Week. Amen +

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and he heard my voice.