Healing Doesn't Have to be Hard


I was thinking about healing the other day. Actually, as a special education teacher, I think about healing every day.

God seemed to be smiling at me as I was thinking about different disorders and disabilities. It was as if He were asking, “Why are you making this complicated?”

I thought about it. To most of us, healing is a really big deal. We hope for it, but are almost surprised if it actually happens. It seems a rarity that excites us and makes us nervous at the same time, wondering if it will happen again.

It occurred to me – maybe my focus was in the wrong place. The times I’ve seen healing happen in front of me, I’ve been focused on Jesus, not healing.

He told me something to do or say, and I did it. My attention was on obeying and pleasing Him, not on the result.

I have to remember God isn’t going to measure the success of my walk with Him by how many people get healed. I think He’ll be looking at how much of my heart I gave Him, how much time, how much of my will.

And the beauty of it is, the more of myself I surrender to Him, the more He has to work with and through to bring that healing I ache to see.

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