Releasing the Greater Miracle

Mat 8:5-9
(5) And Jesus, entering into Capernaum, a centurion came near to Him, begging Him,
(6) and saying, Lord, my child has been laid in the house, a paralytic, being grievously tormented.
(7) And Jesus said to him, I will come and heal him.
(8) And answering, the centurion said, Lord, I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof, but only speak a word and my child will be healed.
(9) For I am also a man under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this one, Go; and he goes; and to another, Come; and he comes; and to my slave, Do this; and he does it.

Have you ever wondered why Jesus didn't just 'say the word' to begin with? Did He really just want to take the walk? We can see from His statement that NONE of His disciples had shown the faith of the centurion to that point, nor had anyone else.

Because of the faith of the centurion, Jesus was able to do something He was otherwise not going to do.

Had his faith been - normal - for lack of a better term, Jesus would have walked to the man's house and healed his child. Instead, faith unlocked a greater miracle. The power Jesus then exhibited had previously been 'unseen'. When we ask Jesus to do the miraculous in an area of our lives, do we still box Him in with our own expectations? Consider... that maybe God would truly blow us away if He thought we could really handle it. I don't know. The first step is expecting the miracle, I suppose, and most do not. Can we see the distance we still need to travel with our faith? Just when we thought we've arrived... NOT.