All the Miracles of the Bible by Herbert Lockyer

Author:Herbert Lockyer [Lockyer, Herbert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2017-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

While the nobleman’s sorrow was the birth-pang of faith, he revealed the limit of that faith when he limited the power of Christ to His local presence. He scarcely heard the rebuke of Christ, “Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.” With a foreboding sense of the loss of his son, he besought Christ, “Come down, ere my child die.” He did not realize that the One whose aid he sought was able to heal just as easily from a distance as on the spot. He had faith to believe that where Jesus was present, disease would flee. He must “come down,” if the son is to be cured. The desperate father was not prepared to believe the word of the psalmist, “He sent His word, and He healed them.” Yet although the nobleman’s faith was limited and feeble, it was nevertheless real. Our Lord detected with unerring accuracy the weak point of the anxious father’s faith and nurtured it.

Faith in a wrong object, no matter how strong, never relieves; but faith in a right object, even although weak, will. It is not faith itself that relieves, but the power of the One in whom we believe. How prone man is to crave for the outward and physical manifestations of divine power! But, although Christ seemed to repel the request of the nobleman, His words were both corrective and educative.

We now come to the reward of faith. The nobleman never doubted the assurance of those majestic lips. Without any emotion whatever, without any sign or further word from Christ, the man believed the word uttered and went his way. Evidently, experiencing the rest of faith (for it appears as if he made no particular haste to get back home), he accepted the declaration of Jesus that his son would be well. So, believing, he made no haste. The spark of faith which led him to Christ became a flame of faith as he left Him. On the way home, his servants greeted him with the happy information that his son was healed. Upon inquiry, the father found that the fever had left the boy at the very hour Christ had said, “Thy son liveth.” Such a miracle had a double effect–the sick boy was healed of his fatal fever and the father was healed of his lack of full faith. Because of the miracle, the nobleman’s whole household became believers in Christ. Nothing less than such a miracle could induce them to put their trust in Him. The lesson for our hearts from the miracle is that faith helps faith.

As to the nature of the miracle itself, Jesus healed the dying boy by “remote control.” The distance between Capernaum and Cana was over twenty miles, yet by the exercise of His will, Jesus healed the boy by the word of His mouth. Through the march of modern science, a button pressed in one place releases the waters of a new mighty dam miles away. Christ had no set formula or regular plan.

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