To rise and walk...by faith

WORD 2day: Thursday, 13th week in Ordinary time

July 1, 2021: Genesis 22: 1-19; Matthew 9: 1-8

Imagine the Gospel scene of today: what if the man had decided not to get up and walk, because he was not sure if he were able to. He would have been justified...because after so many years of his lying down there, inability to stretch his limb, it is justified even if he thinks, it would logically be impossible to just rise and walk, so instantaneously as Jesus wanted him to. That fact of being justified notwithstanding, who would have been the loser? The man himself, and without knowing what he would have lost or missed. 

Many a times, out thinking goes this way. In the name of being careful and thoughtful and observant and prudent, we don't leave any space for God. We have everything pre-thought-out, everything fixed in its place, every judgement made and every calculation done! At the end of it all...we are at a loss, how things dont go the way we want them to. At times we do not even know what it means to depend on God - we say we believe in God but in practice we do not ant to take any chances, as we say!

Today the Word challenges us to believe, that nothing is impossible for God. Nothing is too big for God, be it forgiving sins or curing the sick, proves Jesus. Rising and Walking was a decision that man took to trust in the Lord and hope in his command over absolutely everything on earth. When Jesus said 'rise, pick up and walk'...he did not argue or reason out or ask for scientific proof that it would happen. He just wished to do what Jesus said, he just wanted to give God, God's space! Lo and behold, there was a miracle!

Abraham was just beginning to cherish his life, but he was cherishing it to the extent that he was growing unmindful of the One who gave him that life. But he was given a chance to rise and walk, to prove his trust and hope in the Lord. And he just rose, and walked...walked right up to that peak of giving up all his dreams and plans, all his future hopes and human urges. He rose above them all, and walked with the eye of faith!

Today in our daily experiences we are called to rise and walk...to find Lord right beside us all through and remember for ever, "we walk by faith not by sight" (2 Cor 5:7)!