sounds of healing

As a child I was enamored by Harry Houdini. He was my super-hero. 

Superman could fly, Spider man could shoot webs and Batman beat bad guys up, but Houdini was real. 

He would hang upside down in  a straitjacket over an abyss and escape unharmed. Nothing could hold him; jail cells, trucks, chains, water-tanks. 

Then one day I learned it was all fake. He would swallow keys, used rigged trunks and was an expert contortionist. 

But still, I believed, as did many others even today. 

Each year at the anniversary of death people gather to see if he can live up to his claim to escape death. Still they gather, still they wait. 

There is but one man who ever escaped death. Jesus of Nazareth.

His power in life came from simple spoken words; arise, walk, wake up. 

I like to think that Jesus heard the Fathers' voice in the tomb of Easter Day saying, "wake up son"

"Now he was back in Cana of Galilee, the place where he made the water into wine. Meanwhile in Capernaum, there was a certain official from the king’s court whose son was sick. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and asked that he come down and heal his son, who was on the brink of death. Jesus put him off: “Unless you people are dazzled by a miracle, you refuse to believe.”
But the court official wouldn’t be put off. “Come down! It’s life or death for my son.”
Jesus simply replied, “Go home. Your son lives.”
The man believed the bare word Jesus spoke and headed home. On his way back, his servants intercepted him and announced, “Your son lives!”
He asked them what time he began to get better. They said, “The fever broke yesterday afternoon at one o’clock.” The father knew that that was the very moment Jesus had said, “Your son lives.”
That clinched it. Not only he but his entire household believed. This was now the second sign Jesus gave after having come from Judea into Galilee."

John 4:46-54

Do you have faith in the one who can speak healing and life?