Resolve To Be Resigned

March 19, 2017

Day 78: Blessed Assurance:
"Jesus traveled throughout the region of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness." —Matthew 4:23

To sum up Anderson's lesson today: "Jesus is the only one who has ever been able to heal us completely." Although modern medicine is fabulous and has come a long way in helping diagnose, treat, and heal people, Jesus is the only specialist that can offer "complete assurance about our physical, emotional, and spiritual health."

The lesson today reminds me of things I have heard over and over again as a member of my former church. It's not that I don't see Jesus as the great physician, it's just that I....I don't know. I guess I feel like we shouldn't put our stock in that idea. He did heal every kind of disease and illness and He still can, but perhaps that is not the plan.  I have known many people who have begged God for healing either for themselves or for others and it did not come to pass. I am one of them. Though my heart cried out to God, my mother still passed away. Because I knew God could heal my mother, but chose not to, I became embittered and just assumed that my prayers didn't matter. He had the power and chose not to use it and there was nothing that I could do about it. I suppose that is why when people pray for such things they add, "Thy will be done." I was not resolved to God's will in the case of my mother. I wanted my will to be done. I never said, "Thy will be done."  If I had, perhaps I would not have felt so deeply hurt, dismayed, and spiritually shaken when she passed.

Should we pray fervently for healing? Absolutely! However, we should also resolve to be resigned to God's will. That alone could have saved me from emotional estrangement from God and immense heartbreak.