Luke 7:7 NKJV
“Therefore I did not even think myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my servant will be healed.”
In Mark 6:6, the Bible says, “And He [Jesus] marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching” (NKJV). This is one of the (at least) two places in the entire Bible where Jesus, strangely, “marveled” at something. In this text, He marveled because of the “unbelief” of the people in His own town. The other place where the King of glory marveled, on the contrary, was because of the “great faith” of a man. The Scripture says, “When Jesus heard these things, He marveled at him, and turned around and said to the crowd that followed Him, ‘I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!'” (Luk 7:9 NKJV). Hallelujah!
The man that Jesus referred to was a Roman soldier in Capernaum (Luk 7). His servant, “…who was dear to him, was sick and ready to die” (Luk 7:2 NKJV). The soldier sent for Jesus to come heal his servant, and He started out immediately. However, along the way, the soldier sent another message, saying, “Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof” (Luk 7:6 NKJV). He added, “Therefore I did not even think myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my servant will be healed”, as in our text. Think through those words again, especially as coming from a man of authority, who was a Gentile, yet believed in (just) the power of the spoken words of Jesus!
What even made the soldier believe that though he was “not worthy” to have Jesus under his roof in person, His word of healing would be enough to heal his servant? If the Word worked remotely for the “not worthy” soldier, how much more should we believe God’s word to work for us—who in Christ, “…God made…WORTHY to RECEIVE the glorious inheritance freely given to us by living in the light” (Col 1:12 TPT)? Hallelujah! Beloved, God has spoken through His Son (Heb 1), and from His throne in heaven, He is remotely sending forth His word (Isa 55). God’s word has whatever it takes to fulfill the purpose for which He sends it. We can definitely take Him at His unfailing, ever-active, ever-living Word. Yes!
Pst. Emmanuel