This Amazed Jesus…..

Do you want to amaze God? I mean really make Him pleased? Put 100% of your faith into Him, and watch what happens. The Roman officer believed Jesus could heal his sick servant, so easily, that He didn’t even have to be there to do it. He believed Jesus could just give the command to be healed from where He was (far away) and it would happen. This amazed Jesus. It pleased Him so much that He announced that He hadn’t seen this kind of faith in all of Israel. When we trust God with our entire life, and believe He can do anything, it pleases God. When we please God, He is glorified. Pleasing God is all about faith. Where we put it, and how much of it we put into action. We live out our faith not to prove it’s real, or too see how much we have. We live out our faith because God is real, and He is the only legitimate recipient worthy of it. Stop wasting your time trying to find worthy objects to put your faith into. Place your faith in God, and He will give you more of it, along with all that comes with pleasing Him.

1 When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, He returned to Capernaum. 2 At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death. 3 When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask Him to come and heal his slave. 4 So they earnestly begged Jesus to help the man. “If anyone deserves Your help, he does,” they said, 5 “for he loves the Jewish people and even built a synagogue for us.”6 So Jesus went with them. But just before they arrived at the house, the officer sent some friends to say, “Lord, don’t trouble Yourself by coming to my home, for I am not worthy of such an honor. 7 I am not even worthy to come and meet You. Just say the word from where You are, and my servant will be healed. 8 I know this because I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come,’ and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this,’ they do it.”9 When Jesus heard this, He was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following Him, He said, “I tell you, I haven’t seen faith like this in all Israel!” 10 And when the officer’s friends returned to his house, they found the slave completely healed. Luke 7:1-10