diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_7:1-10.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_7:1-10.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f46763 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_7:1-10.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 7:1–10" +date = "2022-11-14" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk7.1-10) + +Some time after giving the sermon, Jesus returns to Capernaum. When word gets +around that He is back, He is approached by some Jewish elders with a request +for healing. What's unusual is that the request isn't for themselves or for +someone they are close to, but for a Roman centurion's slave. Even more unusual +is that the request comes from the centurion himself, and he also has a good +enough relationship with these community leaders to have them ask Jesus for +help on his behalf. To put this in perspective, imagine a British Empire army +captain asking for an Indian guru to help his butler. + +Jesus agrees to go with them, but on the way, some more of the centurion's +friends stop Him, saying that the man's house is not worthy to have Jesus under +its roof. But the centurion also sent word that he knew if Jesus just said so, +his slave would be healed, because he understands how authority and the chain +of command work. His faith in Jesus is so great that he knows Jesus can heal +from a distance, because Jesus has authority over the disease. Jesus is amazed +at the centurion's faith, and says it is greater than any He has seen in +Israel. He goes on His way and the slave is healed. + +We don't know how or why this centurion came to have such great faith, but his +example is certainly one we should strive to emulate. Notice also how humble he +was: he didn't order Jesus to see him, even though he probably had the civil +authority to do so. He didn't ask Jesus to come into his house because that +would have made Him ritually unclean (though maybe that's a Pharisaical +tradition). + +* * * + +Give us great faith and humility, for we love You with our whole lives.