Living With Chronic Pain – Spiritual Healing – God Is Healing
Imagine this…If God were to die today and remove Himself from everything in the universe, would your life be any different? And relative to the construct of healing, do believe you could be healed without God?
Personally, I believe many people would continue the worldly grind without noticing whether or not God was either alive or dead. As evidenced within Christendom today, I believe it would be business as usual, trying to balance the books while keeping the membership numbers in the growth column. Of course, I’m speaking in relative terms to the majority. However, let me make it clear that there are some very devoted churches and ministries that would definitely realize the absence of God if the hypothetical were actualized.
Relative to healing, our medical system doesn’t really recognize God as the arbiter of our ailments. Most treatment approaches rely strictly on medical science, formulating an accurate diagnosis then followed by appropriate treatment measures to ameliorate the pain condition and concurrent symptomatology. If at all, God seems to be mentioned merely as the last hope option when all else fails, as seen with terminal conditions. As far as the church, a giant chasm between doctrines exists among the denominations. On one side of the spectrum, there is the firm belief that the healing gifts have already ceased after being used during a few brief biblical periods, and on the polar opposite, charismatic dogma, steeped in faith-based belief, purports acts of modern-day miraculous healing. Regardless, the danger of professional agenda without reliance upon God renders the idea of holistic healing ineffective.
So would we really recognize whether or not if God were dead today? This is not an unfathomable question. Over 1,950 years ago, the apostle John, through his Patmos vision, heard a message about this as it pertained to the church at Sardis. When this man-made institution deliberately skipped passed God in its works, nothing of the spiritual life remained. “…I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead” (Revelation 3:1b). Basically, our culture does likewise, intending to do good works comparable to the practice of healing medicine, then has turned in the opposite direction running as quickly as possible from God. Not much has really changed from this vision nearly two millennia ago.
In a nutshell, if God were actually dead, nothing recognizable about life would be upheld or sustained. Everything is attached to its Creator which is God. If God were actually dead so would be mankind and all of creation. Therefore, let’s wake up from complacency about faith, even as it pertains to something like healing. Splash water on your face and become sober-minded about holistic health. Without including God in the healing process, our attempts to reduce pain and suffering will produce nominal results and more importantly, our unbelief will mislead our hurting culture down the pathway of destruction. God is alive and will never die. He is integrated within every part of your being, waiting to heal you permanently.
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