God is faithful

April 27, 2017

Day 117: A Joyous Stampede Of Healing:
"For you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings, And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture." —Malachi 4:2

There is that word again: fear. "Fear my name..."  I really wish that those who translate the Bible would use another word besides fear.  Why should we fear the name of our creator?  We should feel joy, peace, reverence, respect, love, inspiration—not fear.

In the lesson today Anderson shares another story of a miraculous healing of a man who had a tumor. Harvey and his family (specifically his aunt) prayed that he would receive "complete healing" before he went to the Mayo clinic. Harvey told Dr. Anderson, "I'm here to tell you that the miracle my aunt prayed for happened! The tumor is gone! The doctors at Mayo couldn't believe it, but God has cured me!"

Anderson says that "God wants us to experience the kinds of healings we see in the New Testament. He wants all of us to have freedom from the chains of sin and disease. And when we're healed, he wants us to shout it from the mountaintops and leap for joy."

Or perhaps He wants us to learn something from our disease, or grow in some fashion because of an experience we've had. Or maybe He wants to test us, or perhaps he is feeling as He did with Job and believes that we are so faithful that Satan can do anything and everything to us, short of killing us, and we will remain faithful. My point is, we don't know.  So many religious leader types say these things, but no one really knows why one person is healed and not another.

All we can know with any certainty is that God is faithful...so must we be.