"Go; your son will live."
John 4:50
The strongest support is provided not only to protect the young from evil, but also to rouse them and attract them more easily and gently to the performance of good works.
Like the twigs of plants, the young are easily influenced, as long as someone works to change their souls. But if they are allowed to grow hard, we know well that the possibility of one day bending them diminishes a great deal and is sometimes utterly lost. -- Saint Joseph Calasanz
There was an official whose son was ill. He went and begged Jesus to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe. Go; your son will live."
The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living. So he asked them the hour when he began to mend, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."
The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live"; and he himself believed, and all his household. -- John 4:46-53
No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed (Isaiah 65:20).
Father in heaven, you are my help and my healer! Your anger is but for a moment, but your favor is for a lifetime! In you, there is always hope for a brighter future and a better tomorrow.
In my prosperity, I shall never be moved. It was you who turned my mourning into dancing and my sorrows into joy.
I humbly offer you my praise and thanksgiving for all the good things you have done in Jesus Name. Amen.
Sing praises to the LORD,
O you his saints,
and give thanks
to his holy name.
Psalm 30:4
