We live in a world where so much can come in an instant that it often becomes taken for granted. Many times we overlook that the journey is more important than the destination. I went through a spell where my life was completely high speed 24/7. I felt rushed all the time. If everything didn’t happen right away then would get frustrated with life in general. Even when at Mc Donald’s if I was asked to pull up to the yellow line and wait for my food I would get frustrated. Those extra 5 minutes seemed to be absolutely horrible. When it comes to our God many get frustrated. We read “ask and ye shall receive”. Problem is we think that means we will receive “my will” instead of “thy will”. Just like our parents drove us nuts when we were younger with stupid rules/stupid chores, whose only purpose seemed to be to ruin our fun and waste our time, many think that God doesn’t do what we want because he doesn’t understand or care. The thing is, our parents had those stupid rules to keep us safe. Our parents had us do those stupid chores to help us learn life lessons. God works the same, he gives us what we can handle and that’s not always what we want. But God does work in an instant. The moment you decide to take his son into your life and follow him you are saved. The moment that you take Jesus Christ as your lord and savior you are saved but it doesn’t end there. Jesus wants to be your wing man and he has tons of grace to share with you. Its why he wants you to get baptized in the Holy Spirit. It’s why he wants you to become a member in his Church and confirm your faith. He wants to share with you his body and blood in communion. He wants to grant you forgiveness when you make mistakes and he offers you the chance to confess your sins. He may even give you someone to share your life with and wants you to join with them in Holy Matrimony for life through marriage in his Church. Jesus may put the calling for you to help others and be a member of his Church’s clergy and call you to Holy Orders. In later years or in times of ill health he also wants to be with and give you that grace that can get you through such time by Anointing of the Sick. Make no mistake God loves you he sent his only son Jesus who wants to be there by your side always so that he can help you… in an instant.
John 4:43-54
43After the two days he departed to Galilee. 44For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast. 46So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Caper'na-um there was an official whose son was ill. 47When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe." 49The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 50Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. 51As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living. 52So he asked them the hour when he began to mend, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." 53The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live"; and he himself believed, and all his household. 54This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
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