Healing - hold fast

Healing is such a difficult topic. I've struggled for many years to find a workable theological understanding on this topic. Many of us believe in healing because it's in the Bible. It's good to put our faith in the Scriptures, but that faith has to reach deeper into our life experience than just because the bible says so.

It can be more comfortable for us to redefine healing to fit our experiences. We use prayer for healing as a perfunctory task asking with faith in our words, but not in our heart and spirit. We ask if healing is for today, does God still do miracles, or is healing a gift for some and not for others?

I've seen God heal and answer prayers for healing. I believe he can heal, but who and how and when he heals and when he does not is still difficult to navigate. 

I've prayed for healing many times myself for different ailments. Often God has brought me through, the issue goes away in time, or the doctor helps correct those issues. I've come to recognize that as a legit form of healing. But I still long to see God do miracles. It's not that I need miraculous signs to believe. It's that I want to see God do miracles, I want to live in what he has said is possible, and I want to receive all he has for me.

I believe we all need healing in our life. Whether its physical, relational, emotional, or spiritual; we all need God to touch our life in a healing way on a daily basis.

Any gap between what I know God can do and what I experiences is on me. It's not that God's Word is not true, it's not that God will not do all that he has said he will do. That gap shows me that there is more change needed in my life and more self to lay down in surrender. I can deflect and redefine the experience all I want, but in the end, it's still on me. Belief is an ongoing action; it's a series of steps that leads to experience.

I've chosen to keep asking and keep believing. I've chose to keep listening to the Holy Spirit and submitting my life to his examination. I choose not to let go, but to hold fast to God. Holding fast means I will never let go. It means the Holy Spirit, and I keep walking together weather I see miraculous healing or not. I keep believing and keep moving forward following Jesus.



 

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