Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
Luke 23:47
Matthew tells us this centurion would go on to say, ‘Truly, this was the Son of God.’ What convinced him? It was the way Jesus handled rejection and pain, suffering and death.
Why do we as believers insist on never going through suffering, when it is actually the method the Lord uses to bring about the conversion of many a centurion?
In Exodus 14, God positioned His people between Piahiroth and Migdol with their backs to the Red Sea and Pharaoh’s army headed right towards them. Why? So He would be glorified among the Egyptians when they saw how He delivered His people.
Oftentimes, we go to great lengths to avoid being boxed in, to avoid hard times, to avoid physical pain. Yet those are the very things which convince the Egyptians, the centurions, and or neighbors of the faithfulness of God when He sees us through.
Yes, we should pray. Yes, we should make our requests and petitions known to our Father. Yes, we should persevere in prayer. But we must also let God be God. We must also allow Him the freedom to do what He wants to do in our lives no matter how painful it might seem. It was for the joy set before Him that Jesus, our Friend, our Lord, our Model endured the Cross.
And so must we.
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