How is your health? Do you have any serious illness? Or you may be depressed? We all wish to be healed of our pains, sufferings and sickness.

In today’s Gospel reading Jesus cures the seriously ill son of an official at Capernaum. He had asked Jesus to come and heal his son. When Jesus told him his son would live, with faith in Jesus’ word he returned home and, upon his return was told his son had recovered at the hour Jesus said his son would live. “And he became a believer, he and all his family.”

Like the official, we are called to have faith in God and his Son Jesus who came to redeem us. Like the official, we are called to have faith that God cares for us in the same way that Jesus cared for the official and his ill son. We are called to have faith in God and in the power of prayer, that, though God may not answer our prayer, precisely to give what we have prayed for, God listens and answers our prayers because he is our heavenly Father who loves and cares for us.