Mark 1:40-45
Jesus heals a leper. Leprosy was the worst thing you could get. Separated you from your family and community. Goodbye to your job, your clubs, sitting outside the gate with the elders--all gone. Couldn't attend worship, marriages, funerals. Nothing.
This man believes Jesus can heal him, if only he will. He submits to the will of God.
Many people of faith are NOT healed of their diseases because it is not God's will. He has a purpose in it and for it. How many people in the medical profession are touched by Christians who trust God in the midst of chemo treatments?
There's a whole world out there I'd have never met if not for Amanda's medical conditions. I pray we have been a good witness for Christ.
2 comments:
So basically anything that happens to us is a blessing. If we are diseased, we are blessed because we have all the more reason to trust God with our lives, having constant reminders of how not in control we are. It's interesting we spend so much time praying for healing. It is nice to feel well and be healthy, but is it really better than sickness? There are a lot of things that we consider bad in themselves because they came into the world with sin. Overcoming them is a good witness, though, so healing would definitely be necessary for such witnesses. I know it is best to stick with being joyful in every situation in life, knowing the will of God is being lived out in you. That's pretty difficult.
exactly. In everything give thanks, for THIS is the will of God concerning you.
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