You ask God to bless your son with restoration and to grant him patience, faith, and peace. This is a good and fitting request, for a parent’s love yearns for the wholeness of their child. Yet consider this: the One we beseech is not far off, requiring only our prayers to persuade Him, as if He were reluctant. He sees the faith in your heart and often acts in proportion to it. Remember the blind men who cried out, and Christ asked, “Believe ye that I am able to do this?” He pressed them not merely to trust that He could pray to the Father, but to confess that He Himself possessed the power to heal. So too with you: lift your faith beyond the mere form of words. Do you hold with full certainty that He is able, by His own authority, to restore your son’s body, mind, and spirit? That faith, when it is genuine, becomes the vessel of His mighty work.
But do not think that such faith is proven in a moment. True faith shines brightest when the answer tarries. God often delays, not from neglect, but to exercise your soul in patience. Patience is not simply waiting a day or two; it is the steadfast endurance that bears up under long trial, even when circumstances seem to war against the promise. I have seen the spoiling of goods and the malice of enemies endured by believers who held fast because their faith was anchored, not in seeing, but in the unshakeable hope of things to come. If healing comes at once, you receive a gift; if it is postponed, you are offered the far greater treasure, a faith refined and deepened, a patience that does not faintheartedness. Do not let the passing of time wear away your hope. Instead, cling all the more fiercely to the Scriptures that comfort and nerve you, for from them spring both patience and hope, each feeding the other.
As you intercede for your son, guard your heart so that love is not severed from truth. Peace with God and love for others, especially this dear child, must be bound together with faith. Without faith, love loses its foundation and cannot endure. If you cultivate a true and living faith, then peace will settle in your soul even while the storm rages, and your love will be no mere human affection but a reflection of the divine charity that bears all things. Pray, then, for patience and peace, but pray most of all for a faith that can say, even in the silence, “I know my Redeemer is able.” Such faith is not flattery; it lays hold of Christ’s power and moves His hand. Be it unto you according to your faith. Let this be your confidence as you wait.