I feel I should say more about my recent healing.
(No, my knee has not begun hurting again.)
Perhaps we're tempted to ask why - why would God give me a miracle? I did not ask for healing, and it really was a rather minor problem for me. There are so many others with deeper needs.
One of two things is true:
1) God wanted my attention at that time and place. He got it, and continues to have it. I'll keep telling people about this until further notice. Also will keep praising.
2) The Spirit blows where it will, and no one knows the movement of it. I'm thinking that none of the Pentecost people prayed for the gift of speaking in tongues either. BAM! YOU get a spiritual gift, and YOU get a spiritual gift, and YOU . . .
3 comments:
"There are so many others with deeper needs."
I continue to be bewildered by the fact that we like to minimize our own suffering by comparing it to others' - as though such things can even be compared. I think that in saying there are others with bigger needs, it minimizes Christ's work on the cross for you in your own life. If we reduce our own suffering to something insignificant, then it seems to me that we're also saying that our redemption/healing/salvation/etc. found in Christ through the cross is just as insignificant. Does Christ's death and subsequent resurrection mean more to the person dying of AIDS than it does for the person who stubbed her toe? I would venture to guess that the knowledge of Christ suffering with us is just as important to the person with the stubbed toe as it is to the AIDS victim. I believe that our suffering is unique to ourselves - in how we experience it and how we heal from it - and thus cannot adequately be compared to the suffering of others.
These are my initial thoughts. I truly resonate with the 2 items you list last, but wonder: could it be that both are true?
Keep putting that stake in the ground: a stake that reads: "I was healed. God did it."
Keep reminding yourself (and the rest of us) THAT WHAT YOU EXPERIENCED WAS REAL. Because it was real.
Drive that stake in deeper, brother. It's having an impact on you, yes, but it's also having an impact on us, your flock.
But God...
But God...
But God...
YHWH, Holy is Your name.
I considered my knee pain to be insignificant, my sin, not.
Back to work, probie.
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