My sister has
taken in a four year old ward who belongs to a budhist family.Her name is
Lorim.She has been attending the local nursery school and never fails to
surprise my sister with her candour.A lot of it seems strange to my sister for
she continues to bring forth observations and comments that she has picked up
in the paraphernalia of a surrounding of a drastically changing culture in her
region brought forth by the onslaught of the hydel project with it’s manifold
baggages.She is a perky four year old.
One day the
lady help, my sister has kept with her,who is a devout Christian ,Pavitra,seem
to have misplaced the car keys.She was worked up and was frantically searching
the house upside down for it.Suddenly the four year old quietly observed from
the corner-‘Why don’t you pray to your Jesus father to help you find your
keys?’.Both of them were stunned ,they did exactly that.Needless to say they
found the keys.
This morning
I was reading the gospel of Mathew and meditating on Mathew chapter 8 verses 5 to 11.It’s about
the faith of the centurian who comes to Jesus for the healing of his
servant.The servant apparently is paralysed and in terrible suffering.Jesus
offers to go to his house to heal him
but the centurian insists that he does not deserve that Jesus take so much of
trouble and could just say the word and his servant would be healed.My NIV
bible states that Jesus was astonished at this man’s faith.
How often do
we surprise God with our faith?
Jesus says
‘Go it will be done just as you believed it would.’
The man was healed at that very hour.
Do you and I really
believe that Jesus can do it?
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