The Object of Our Faith

Trapped in a stalled car as floodwater rose beneath the Main Street Bridge, Rev. Cerveny learned that faith has no power of its own; its power lies in its object. Mark 7 shows what Jesus is like: he heals the daughter of a Syrophoenician woman who asks not because she is worthy but because he is good, and he takes a deaf man aside to touch him with intimate compassion. He is the Savior who climbs into the water and carries us.