Quote for the Day
“Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
Today's Prayer
This week pray for those traveling that they may be focused on their relationship with Christ as they are engulfed in the processes of travel and business.
John 4:43-54
John 4:43-54 (NIV)43 After the two days he left for . 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 45 When he arrived in , the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there.46 Once more he visited in , where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at . 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in from , he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.48 “Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”50 Jesus replied, “You may go. Your son will live.”The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and all his household believed.54 This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from to .
Message
Once again we see Jesus out with the people, talking and being with them in their circumstances. His ministry was to be with people and share the Father with those He encountered. Miracles and signs were only a small portion of His message. Jesus was interested in a relationship with those He met and talked to. He knew that with a relationship they would come to believe who He was and thus come to the Father. Today, even as when Christ walked physically with people on the earth, many are not convinced by a relationship; they want more. We see throughout both the Christian and non-Christian worlds a search for the miraculous. People are on a desperate search for something to help them “feel” their belief.Jesus makes it clear here and in many other scriptures, that HE is the miracle, not the physical acts of greatness and indescribable power that He had access to. He wants us to know that HE alone is the power, and HE alone is the source of our relationship. While many continue to seek signs and wonders, those who have developed a relationship with Him see HIM as the miracle, sign, and wonder of this and all ages.Seek the miracle of Christ in your life this week, and He will show you a relationship that no other can bring.