God Visits His People

“God has visited His people.” Luke 7: 16

God always visits us, but we do not always see Him. We usually fail to see Him in our busy-ness, our preoccupation with things of this earth, in our anxieties and worries, sometimes even in our excitement for things to come.

But when we need Him, invariably, we plead for His intervention. In the story in the 7th chapter of Luke, Jesus happens upon a funeral procession for the only son of a widow. The woman was weeping and the crowd around her could not fail to weep with her. It was bad enough that her husband had died, now her son had left her as well! How could she have known that the God of life would cross her path, and speak words that would raise her son up from the grave? 

The crowd witnessed the miracle, and fear seized them all. They glorified God, and exclaimed, “God has visited His people!” We should never forget that God is always with us, even when we do not see things out of the ordinary. After all, faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen as St. Paul wrote in his letter to the Hebrews. 

Faith is essential to us Christians. We need to confidently believe in God’s promises. We need to trust and rely on God even in difficult circumstances. Is our faith alive? Or is it dead like the young man in the coffin? The priest in this morning’s mass said we can tell our faith is alive if we pray every day. If we don’t speak to our Heavenly Father, we are losing our faith. 

That is why it is good to arm ourselves with God’s Word, and with the stories of the saints who were victorious in their earthly battles. We should never ever give up on ourselves. God is always with us, making sure that just as He began the good work within us, He will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. (Philippians 1:6)