Here's a great thought to savor today: "I, the LORD, am your healer." (Exodus 15:26). This remarkable declaration was based on some important conditions: "If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians" (Exodus 15:26). An obedient people were promised freedom from the diseases that had plagued the Egyptians because of their disobedience.
I've never met a person who didn't need some form of healing. Illness and diseases comes in a variety of forms - mental, spiritual, and physical. Often the greatest afflictions are the unseen spiritual and mental illnesses that are at least as real as physical ones. Regardless, God is ultimately the LORD your healer.
Like Father, like Son. Should it come as any surprise that Jesus' earthly ministry was characterized by the miraculous? There was no more clear evidence of His Sonship than the miracles that could only be done through Holy Spirit coursing through Him. Perhaps His most outstanding defense before the Jewish religious leaders was this: "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father." (John 10:37-38) In essence, His testimony was that if they were not convinced of His identity through His authoritative teachings, at least they should be convinced through the dynamic miracles. Only God's Son could be enabled to do such.
We have a Father and Son team who are ultimately healers. Their great desire and purpose is for perfect healing of all creatures and creation. That's the essence of the kingdom of God - complete healing and perfection as it existed at the beginning. As such, their deliberate efforts are being exerted to ultimately bring this perfect healing to pass. There are moments of healing breakthroughs in this age, but ultimate healing is yet future. Isn't it tremendously encouraging to know that true healing is our destiny?
We are "agents of healing" in the world today. That's not to say that we're necessarily empowered to instantly heal through our touch (although that possibility can't be ruled out). Ultimately, we are called to be used by the Father and Son team of healers to bring healing wherever there is brokenness - to our own lives, to broken relationships, and to all that is sin-scarred.
"I, the LORD, am your healer." Be encouraged and comforted in this wonderful truth, and be open to how He would use you as a healing agent in the world today.
Steve
©Steve Taylor, 2011
I've never met a person who didn't need some form of healing. Illness and diseases comes in a variety of forms - mental, spiritual, and physical. Often the greatest afflictions are the unseen spiritual and mental illnesses that are at least as real as physical ones. Regardless, God is ultimately the LORD your healer.
Like Father, like Son. Should it come as any surprise that Jesus' earthly ministry was characterized by the miraculous? There was no more clear evidence of His Sonship than the miracles that could only be done through Holy Spirit coursing through Him. Perhaps His most outstanding defense before the Jewish religious leaders was this: "If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father." (John 10:37-38) In essence, His testimony was that if they were not convinced of His identity through His authoritative teachings, at least they should be convinced through the dynamic miracles. Only God's Son could be enabled to do such.
We have a Father and Son team who are ultimately healers. Their great desire and purpose is for perfect healing of all creatures and creation. That's the essence of the kingdom of God - complete healing and perfection as it existed at the beginning. As such, their deliberate efforts are being exerted to ultimately bring this perfect healing to pass. There are moments of healing breakthroughs in this age, but ultimate healing is yet future. Isn't it tremendously encouraging to know that true healing is our destiny?
We are "agents of healing" in the world today. That's not to say that we're necessarily empowered to instantly heal through our touch (although that possibility can't be ruled out). Ultimately, we are called to be used by the Father and Son team of healers to bring healing wherever there is brokenness - to our own lives, to broken relationships, and to all that is sin-scarred.
"I, the LORD, am your healer." Be encouraged and comforted in this wonderful truth, and be open to how He would use you as a healing agent in the world today.
Steve
©Steve Taylor, 2011
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