Do You Believe?

Matthew 9:28-29

They went right into the house where he was staying, and Jesus asked them, “Do you believe I can make you see?”

“Yes, Lord,” they told him, “we do.”

Then he touched their eyes and said, “Because of your faith, it will happen.”

When Charles Peace (a convicted thief and murderer) was being escorted to the gallows, he was accompanied by a clergyman reading from The Consolations of Religion about the “flames never quenched.” Peace was a known criminal for whom the public had no sympathy; no one can say with confidence the prison chaplain was reading without a sneer. The last words of “comfort” Charles Peace heard were about hell and flames.

Incredulous, Peace turned to the chaplain and exclaimed: "Sir, if I believed what you and the church of God say that you believe, even if England were covered with broken glass from coast to coast, I would walk over it, if need be, on hands and knees and think it worthwhile living, just to save one soul from an eternal hell like that!”

Jesus asked the blind men, “Do you believe?” He asks us the same thing every day. Do we believe?

Do we truly believe that God can heal us and our loved ones?

Do we truly believe that God can change the lives of the worst sinner among us? Or you?

We may have no trouble believing God cares for us, but do we really believe that God cares about our neighbor?

The good news is that we don’t have to crawl across England over broken glass, we just have to take God and His promises seriously.

Do you believe? If so, there is a lost and dying world out there that needs to hear the Good News about Jesus. We have work to do!

Today’s Readings: Matthew 8-10

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