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Benefits – Healing

Posted in Benefits, Bible, Healing, tagged on July 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

“forget not all his benefits: … who healeth all thy diseases;” – Psalms 103:2b,3b

I have personally experienced God’s healing touch and have friends who have as well. I have friends with serious chronic illnesses, enduring years with no improvement. Jennie and I have a handicapped child not expected by the medical community to recover. How should this verse be viewed?

Saying we are sick because we lack faith is like Job’s friends telling him he was suffering because he sinned — easy for them to say, they weren’t suffering, yet.

I believe God is telling us not to forget, even through the struggle and delay, that healing is for us and never give up.

Years ago circuses kept their elephants chained to tiny stakes. The large beasts could easily escape — but wouldn’t even try because when young they were chained where they could not escape, eventually resigning themselves to captivity. WE dare not let that happen to us.

I was asked recently if our handicapped child would be living with us for life. My response was that I don’t know what will happen five (5) minutes from now, how can I know what will happen for life? A change can happen at any moment and until it does God will give grace to take the next step. Expect God’s goodness — always live with the knowledge that God can do anything and that a delay, even a long one, is not final.

One thing that helps is realizing Jesus is not just the healer, he is our healing. (See also: “What He Is, Not What He Does” – June 9, 2011)

– fritz@langgang.com

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Real Change?

Posted in Calvin and Hobbs, Change, Crisis, Healing, tagged , on May 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »

[Jesus] saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. – Mark 2:17b

Christ appears to be supporting the idea that religion is a “crutch” only for those who are lame and a cure only for those who are sick.

You could think that, if you were unaware of the Bible’s view of humanity.

“The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” – Psalm 14:2-4

The audience for Jesus’ discourse was fully aware, being scribes and pharisees. He was telling them in a backhanded way that everyone needs God’s forgiveness and real change. Sadly, only the ones who recognize their need sign up.

Bill Watterson expresses this same idea in one of his Calvin and Hobbs cartoon strips:

Calvin and Hobbs (click to enlarge)

But change is possible! I remember when my dad had so much pain he finally went to the doctor and was told it was his gall bladder. After that he radically changed his diet, lost weight and kept it off for years, and survived. He needed to do that much sooner, and knew it, but the change did not happen until motivated.

Get motivated now, why wait?

Prayer: Jesus, you are the healer for those not ashamed to admit their need! Come and work real change in my life for the good.
Sound Bite: Jesus heals those not too proud to admit they are sick.

– fritz@langgang.com

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>The Children’s Bread

Posted in Food, Healing, tagged on November 1, 2010| Leave a Comment »

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A Canaanite woman … came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession.” … He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs.” – Matthew 15:22, 26

A foreigner asked Jesus for healing. Jesus initially resisted by saying food belongs to the family.

Ignoring the controversy over the way he addressed her and why, notice Jesus equated deliverance and healing to food that a father provides to his children.

There can be extenuating circumstances1 but we need to see that God considers our health and well being as not just important but essential as food on the table, and the Lord’s Prayer request for “our daily bread” for more than just something to eat.

– fritz


1 – Paul’s thorn in the flesh, 2nd Corinthians 12:7

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