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One Day I Will Be Healed
Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Mar 30, 2011 (message contributor)
ONE DAY I WILL BE HEALED
A few weeks ago, I saw a special on TV about faith healers. In that show, Lisa Ling went to the meeting of a renowned faith healer where she interviewed a man named Steve. When he was 18, Steve was in a car crash that left him with brain injury and a speech impediment. Years after that, he fell off a roof and was paralyzed from the waist down.
Doctors said Steve would never walk again--but Steve said God had told him this was his time to be healed. He was completely convinced that he would leave that meeting walking and pushing his wheelchair. His faith was absolute...he didn’t express a single doubt that God was about to heal him.
On the last day of the meeting, Steve’s turn came. He went forward and sat in a row of people where the faith-healer touched his forehead and said "Bam!" Then a group of people prayed over him, reached under his arms, and lifted him up--but then after a couple of minutes, they set him back in his wheel chair. His condition was unchanged.
After this, Lisa Ling became very concerned for Steve. She knew he was completely convinced that he would be healed and she wondered what would happen to his faith. When she found Steve after the meeting, though, she was amazed. He was disappointed --- but his faith was unshaken.
In his halting voice, Steve told her, "It wasn’t my time to be healed--but one day I will walk and run--when I get to Heaven, God will give me a new body." Then Steve laid his hand on Lisa and prayed for her.
When I saw that, I realized I was witnessing a miracle. The miracle wasn’t in the man’s legs...it was a miracle of his soul--the light of Jesus was shining out of his heart. After all, a physical healing is always temporary. But spiritual healing lasts for eternity.
While he was on earth, Jesus healed people who were paralyzed (like Steve.) He healed the sick, the blind, the deaf, the crippled, and the lepers. He even raised the dead. But notice that Jesus didn’t "hype" the healings. In fact, he often instructed people not to tell anyone about their miracle.
Jesus made it clear that healing was NOT the main event. Physical healings are temporary at best. (After all, none of those folks Jesus healed are still alive today, are they?) Jesus performed signs and wonders so we would know that He IS the one and only Son of God.
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