"So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water to wine. And at Caper'na-um there was an official whose son was ill. When 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. Jesus therefore said to him, 'unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.' The official said to him, 'Sir, come down before my child dies.' Jesus said to him, 'Go, your son will live.' The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living. So he asked them the hour when e began to mend, and they said to him, 'Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.' The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, 'your son will live.'; and he himself believed, and all his household. This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee."
Picture a big...beautiful...extravagant sign on the highway pointing to the destination of the road you are on. Now this sign is so beautiful that people from all over the place come to see it.
The point of the sign is to point you to where it is you are supposed to go. It is nothing but tool to help you focus on the goal.
Yet becuase of its beauty it soon becomes the destination itself rather then the tool it was created to be. Kris made this comparison last sunday to how Jesus was probably feeling about the miracles he was doing at the time he said his first words to the official.
Rather than his signs and miracles acting as a tool to lead people to God they became the reason people came out to see him. This is important because the official seperates himself from the crowd by persisting with Jesus about healing his son. He proves to be in need of the power of God rather then soley interested in the miracle itself.
Jesus offers no visible miracle for the official. Rather, He simply speaks words to him, telling him his boy with live, and then asks the official to return to his home. This is freaking incredible. He doesnt even offer to go with him. The man has to walk in faith having no tangible evidence to go with the words of Jesus. He spends an entire day having to walk in faith and belief, givin no proof until the next day when his slaves inform him of his sons recovery, happening the day before exactly when Jesus spoke.
How often are we willing to act on words alone. to walk in faith in something we cannot see or even understand. Without any reassurace what so ever
Are we interested in who God is.... or just what he can do for us?
Are our eyes on God, or are we distracted by the sign?
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