When suffering from chronic pain or a debilitating sickness, its easy to wonder and ask: "Why doesn't God heal me?"
We may even know of some wonderful, faith filled, committed Christians who have died as a result of the very sickness they were hoping to be healed from.
But all is not lost.
While it may be true that not everyone is physically healed in this world, God's promise of final and ultimate healing is absolutely secure to all those who have come to faith in Christ and what he has done for them in his sinless life, death on the cross and subsequent resurrection from the dead. For them, healing is never a matter of 'if', but 'when'!
It is wonderful to be healed - right now - in this world. Many of us have experienced that in our own lives. I know I have. But many of us are still suffering with a physical problem that just won't go away.
What are we to do?
In the hope filled article below, Dr Sam Storms looks at the curious case of why God doesn't always heal.
We may even know of some wonderful, faith filled, committed Christians who have died as a result of the very sickness they were hoping to be healed from.
But all is not lost.
While it may be true that not everyone is physically healed in this world, God's promise of final and ultimate healing is absolutely secure to all those who have come to faith in Christ and what he has done for them in his sinless life, death on the cross and subsequent resurrection from the dead. For them, healing is never a matter of 'if', but 'when'!
It is wonderful to be healed - right now - in this world. Many of us have experienced that in our own lives. I know I have. But many of us are still suffering with a physical problem that just won't go away.
What are we to do?
In the hope filled article below, Dr Sam Storms looks at the curious case of why God doesn't always heal.
Why God Doesn't Always Heal
(2 Corinthians 12:8-10)
(2 Corinthians 12:8-10)
God loved the apostle Paul. Yet God sovereignly orchestrated his painful thorn in the flesh and then declined to remove it, notwithstanding Paul's passionate prayer that he be healed.
We are not apostles. Yet, as his children, no less so than Paul, God loves us too. We don't know the nature of Paul's thorn, but each of us has undoubtedly suffered in a similar way, and some considerably worse. We, like Paul, have prayed incessantly to be healed. Or perhaps knowing of a loved one's "thorn" we have prayed for them. And again, like Paul, God declined to remove it. Why?
It's hard to imagine a more difficult, confusing, and controversial topic than why God chooses not to heal in response to the intercessory pleas of his people. I don't profess to have all the answers, but I think I've got a few. I'm sure that this meditation will provoke many to anger and frustration, while others, I pray, will find a measure of comfort.
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We are not apostles. Yet, as his children, no less so than Paul, God loves us too. We don't know the nature of Paul's thorn, but each of us has undoubtedly suffered in a similar way, and some considerably worse. We, like Paul, have prayed incessantly to be healed. Or perhaps knowing of a loved one's "thorn" we have prayed for them. And again, like Paul, God declined to remove it. Why?
It's hard to imagine a more difficult, confusing, and controversial topic than why God chooses not to heal in response to the intercessory pleas of his people. I don't profess to have all the answers, but I think I've got a few. I'm sure that this meditation will provoke many to anger and frustration, while others, I pray, will find a measure of comfort.
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