Sharing the Light and Love of God

to a Dark World

“For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds; says the Lord” (Jeremiah 30:17)

It is not enough to walk with Jesus. It is not enough to call on Jesus and fall at His feet in repentance. You must believe that Jesus can bring life out of death. That Jesus can heal our wounds and bring us to life in Him.

The healing miracles of Jesus are among the most strongly attested aspects of His ministry, and yet they tend to alienate modern Christians. Reared in a secular culture, we argue they could not have happened on the assumption that God does not and cannot intervene in His world.   Alternatively, if we believe that the Son of God could perhaps have performed miracles, we believe that those powers died with Him in the first century. The miracle of healing does happen and is happening today. I stand in awe as I have watched God heal people from many hurts, not always instantly, but over a period of time. But to be healed, we need to believe that God can heal, because without that, you will have no hope or faith to ask Jesus to heal your hurts.

For God to heal us we need the right concept of God. No man can see the full extent of God. But when the whole of Scripture is absorbed and examined, there emerges the multi-dimensional picture of a wonderful Master and Lover beyond human understanding. Even as He demands, He understands. He loves faultlessly, guides perfectly, reigns absolutely.

The God of the Bible, which is the God we must see if we are to be healed, He is a God of love.  He is the one who loves us more than we can imagine. And as we think about this, we feel that if God loves us that much why does He make it so rough on us sometimes. If we are to consider this, we need a definition of love. I believe that Scott Peck in his book “The Road Less Traveled” says it best. He says, “One result of the mysterious nature of love is that no one ever, to my knowledge arrived at a truly satisfactory definition of love. I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth”. The reason God allows some of the things to happen to us are that He wants us to grow. God loves us so much. The Bible tells us in Jeremiah 31:3 “I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.

Healing will take time and sometimes you will not see any change, but the people close to you will see the changes. Then one day you will look in the mirror and say. “This is a very unique person and I like that person and God loves that person.