THAT’S THE CONCLUSION we can draw from that gospel episode where a woman with a 12-year illness was cured instantly, and a dead girl was made to rise back to life again. (cfr. Mt 9,18-26)
These two miraculous events highlight Christ’s power, showing us how a strong faith can have a transformative power, and how Christ, without doubt, has authority over death. Both events reinforce Christ’s identity as our Savior, and that he is capable of healing what is sick, restoring what is lost, and ultimately conquering death itself.
These two events also show how compassionate and merciful Christ is towards the suffering and the desperate. They also highlight the fact that Christ always responds to our needs of healing and restoration, a clear expression of love.
But we have to remember that it is faith that would let us enter the spiritual and supernatural world, enabling us to receive God’s favor, and letting us share in God’s wisdom and power. Remember those stirring words of Christ: “If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from there, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you.” (Mt 17,20)
Without faith, in spite of our keenest intelligence, we will miss much of the more important aspects of our life as we would only be restricted to the here and now, the material and the temporal. We would be left with our own human devices that can only do so much.
Especially in our special needs and persistent human miseries that nowadays are getting more common, we need to follow the example of the men and women, the blind, the lame, the deaf, the sick, etc., who did all to get close to Christ and to beg. Some even had to climb to the roof and cut a portion there to be able to be near Christ.
This is the pattern we have to follow. We have to eagerly seek Christ and importune him with all our might, accompanying our pleas with external signs of our fervent faith and love for him.
We need to understand that as the very beginning of our life with God, our life in the Spirit which is a supernatural life more than just a natural life, our Christian faith has to be taken care of, nourished and developed to full maturity.
We need to be more aware of this duty and develop the appropriate attitude and skills to carry out this responsibility effectively. We have to go beyond mere good intentions or being merely theoretical in order to be truly practical and vitally engaged with this obligation.
Faith is a tremendous gift from God who starts to share with us what he has, what he knows about himself and about ourselves. It gives us the global picture of reality, covering both the temporal and the eternal, the material and the spiritual, the natural and supernatural dimensions of our life.
Faith contains the medicine and the remedy to all our spiritual inadequacies and illnesses. It is what is required for miracles to happen, as attested many times in the Gospel.
Yes, it is only with a strong and insistent faith that we can see the impossible becoming possible, and to see and even experience the many marvels God always likes to do for us. Miracles happen even up to now because God’s love and care for us never ends! By Fr. Roy Cimagala (EV Mail JUNE 30-JULY 6, 2025 Issue)
