Thursday, December 07, 2006

December 7, 2006

Good morning! I gave some thought this morning, after praying for some people in need, on healing and how it has changed since Jesus healed many in his time on earth. The question foremost in my mind had to do with a seeming lack of the miraculous these days. When Jesus, and later his apostles, healed the person, that person was made whole. Lame beggars jumped up, Lazarus came forth in his grave clothes, and blind men could see perfectly. Why not now? Are we like the people of Nazareth where Jesus could do little due to their unbelief? Perhaps there is much of that in the unbelief of secular humanism, which is popular among intellectuals and those who would be intellectual, in our land today. Perhaps we simply don’t see the miracles around us or in far away lands. Many reporters will travel thousands of miles and endure hardship to photograph or televise the suffering of war or genocide. Almost none will do the same for miracles of healing in Africa. However, one reason that we may not experience that instant healing may lie in the healing of time. We have a lot going on in our minds these days. When we yearn for the simpler times of old, we are not calling the people of those times simple, but rather that circumstances did not place the burdens upon them that we face now. What an extended hospital stay will give you is a lot of time to think. The myriad worries of this world become simplified as the healing and recovery processes take center stage for many days. Gratitude pours forth to God as the healing continues in the body and mind. The miracles are still here among us, rest assured of that. During these hectic times it is a miracle to have a week, a month, or even more to heal and praise God.

May God keep you in peace today!

Bucky

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