[Grem] *****SPAM(5.9)***** Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in our Gospel today, *a Roman centurion comes to Jesus and says,
“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully. . . . I
am not worthy to have you enter under my roof; only say the word and my
servant will be healed.” *

*Any objective observer would say, “Well, this is ridiculous! What this man
is asking is impossible.” He is not only asking that his servant might be
cured; he is asking that he be cured at a distance, with simply a word.*
He’s at the limit of what he could possibly know or control or
measure. And *yet
he trusts; he has faith.*

*Søren Kierkegaard defined faith as “a passion for the impossible.”* Is God
opposed to reason? Absolutely not;* God gave us the gift of reason. *Does *God
*want us to be unrealistic? No; he *wants us to use all of our powers of
imagination and analysis. But faith goes beyond reason; it is a passion for
what reason can’t see.*

*That centurion had a passion for the impossible. And that’s why Jesus says
to him, in some of the highest praise you’ll find in the Gospel, “In no one
in Israel have I found such faith.” *

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