Today's gospel reading was from Gospel of Mark, the famous incident of the paralytic being lowered from a hole cut in the roof of the building in which Our Lord was in so that he could be healed.
The men that lowered their paralyzed friend through the roof had no doubt whatsoever about what they were doing and why they were doing it; they wanted their friend to be healed and they knew that a healer was in their town, in a building, but was inaccesible through the door.
It would not have been an easy task to complete. These men had to fight their way through a crowd, raise their paralyzed friend to the roof of the building, cut a hole through the roof, and finally lower their friend to be in the presence of Jesus. One does not take any one of these steps, much less all of them if one doubts that it would be worth the effort. They had faith, they knew that they're labor would be rewarded.
Later in the Gospel of Mark (6:5) we read that Jesus was unable to perform miracles because of the lack of faith of the people of Nazareth. It's quite the contrast between the people of Capernaum whose faith literally led them to tear down a roof to get to Our Lord to the people of Nazareth whose doubt was so great that He was unable to perform any miracles.
Jesus said that faith the size of a mustard seed could move mountains yet it seems that doubt the size of a mustard seed can stop us dead in out tracks.
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