Reading:
Luke 9:37-62
"Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child."
In today's reading a man has a son that is possessed of a demon. The child had been brought to the disciples but they were not able to get rid of the demon. So the man does not wait any longer and brings the child to Jesus. He brings him to Jesus empty of any other hope and clinging to Him for an answer.
Why couldn't the disciples exorcise the demon? Just a few verses ago Jesus gave them the power to do so. So why not now? Could it be that the disciples were beginning to think that the power that they had came from themselves? You see they are now beginning to argue among themselves as to who is the greatest. You can almost see them saying, I healed three men and exorcised 2 demons! What did you do? Because they were potentially trusting in their own power to drive out the demon they found out that they had no power. In thinking they are the power they lost their power. Instead of looking to Jesus they looked to themselves and came up woefully short.
So the man comes to Jesus and Jesus drives the demon from the boy and he is healed. Isn't this really what we as Christian parents do with our children. We know that they we can not by ourselves save our children. So we bring them into the Church to be surrounded with God's Word and Sacraments. We bring them to the Baptismal font trusting that Jesus will work a mighty act on this child and instill in this faith, hope and love. We know that in Baptism, we are united to Jesus and die with Him so that we can rise again to newness of life. This is what we do as Christian parents, we bring the child who can not save themselves to the only person who can, Jesus Christ our Savior. The One that kept His face steadfastly towards Jerusalem where He would die to save us. This is who we bring our children too in faith. This is the One that we trust will save our children from their sins and bring them to everlasting life.
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