A Healing
Place
God cares about the
health of our bodies. In Ephesians 2:21-22 we are told that we are
being built into a Holy Temple for God. "In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth
unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together
for an habitation of God through the Spirit."
Perhaps spending a little while here
in this healing place, with the vast universe all around us, thinking of
God's promises to us, can help to ease our minds. As we look into
the night sky, we can realize that we are traveling through the vast universe
on our little "Spaceship Earth". Yet we can feel safe and secure knowing
that we are in God's hands.
It is the creation we see around
us that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt the existence of God. It
takes a huge leap of unjustified faith to believe that the vastness, the
intricacies, and the inter-dependencies of the creation happened as the result
of millions of accidents. The existence of an all powerful God is the
only reasonable conclusion one can arrive at.
And since God exists, we can
believe His promises concerning His desires for us.
In 3John 1: 2 we are told, "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest
prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."
Alas, there is no way that anyone can guarantee healing
in this life, for it's appointed unto us all to die once, but by thinking
and learning of how God has dealt with healing in the past and continues
to heal today, perhaps we can be comforted while we wait for His healing.
This is not a replacement for competent medical attention (one of
God's great blessings to us in this country) but is an addition to that
attention. We must remember that God is more powerful than any human,
when He decides to act.
Christ once told a blind
man to go to the pool of Siloam and wash the muddy spit off his eyes (what
an insult that must have been to the priest's practice of annointing with
olive oil). When the man did so, he was healed of his blindness.
Since Christ has returned to the third heaven, we are instructed, in His
absence, to ask the older, more established men in the faith to pray for one
another's healing. And that we should be willing to admit to one another
that we have sometimes "slipped" or "fallen away" from our closeness to God.
We read this in James 5: 15,,, "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and
the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be
forgiven him."
Please click here to access prayer requests. Thank
you.