True Healing

There are days that I think about the miracles written about in the Bible and compare them to my own life. I think about the blind, crippled, and sick that were healed with just a touch from Jesus. We do not read too much of those who went to Christ with a complaint of "I'm just a little blue today." But, what if... what if it was reported about those who only asked Jesus for wisdom and insight into their problems? What if people asked Christ to heal the simplest of ailments?

I have some physical pains that strike at a moments notice. They are pains I've dealt with most of my adult life. It wasn't until a few years ago, that I took a leap of faith and started to pray once this pain arose. It sometimes would occur at a moment when I had no access to ibuprofen or acetaminophen. I would be in a public place knowing that I would be crippled by this pain for at least an hour or so and there was no way to get relief. One day, as I felt the pain start, I decided to pray and ask God to intervene over my body and take away the pain (as I was reminded "ask and ye shall receive"). I can testify that the pain never reached a level like it did before.

I reveal this story to point out this: "God will take care of the smallest situations if you will just ask." Does God answer the prayer the way we want him to? Not always; but He will answer.

Let's now look at the "ultimate healing:" Eternal Life. When I say that God will not always answer our prayers like we want Him too, I refer to the fact that God sometimes has an ultimate purpose for that "pain" in our lives. Maybe that "pain" helps build our testimony so that we may witness to/encourage others who are going through something similar but have no hope. Maybe there's a reason you have cancer... a handicap... an addiction... stress. Maybe your "pain" is apart of a bigger plan that you can't see. It is refreshing to know that God knows why you're going through your "pain." There is always a bigger picture. The trials and "pains" that we experience are to prepare us for our eternal lives.

God waits on us to reach out to him. God waits to heal us from our "pain" until we ask Him. Have you asked God to heal you from your "pain?"

Matthew 7:
7"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=47&chapter=7&verse=7&end_verse=9&version=31&context=context).

Malachi 4:
1 "Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them. 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. 3 Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things," says the LORD Almighty.
4 "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.
5 "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse" (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=46&chapter=4&version=31).