Haven’t we all asked the question, if God is good why does He let bad things happen? Or if God wills to heal sick people why He doesn’t He heal everyone who asks? Why are some healed of cancer and yet remain a diabetic? When I was prayed for my sinus infection by an evangelist, my eyes were healed and I no longer needed contacts but the sinus problem remained. We have friends who are suffering in chronic pain and not having relief and others who have been healed miraculously. Maybe we try hard to explain it to others but God’s ways are higher. It could be His strength is being perfected in our weakness. Or maybe our lives of brokenness are the very means that He uses for our lights to shine as a witness to one who is searching for the Lord.
Let us not think we need to have all the answers to tell others but even when we don’t know what He is up to in our lives, we must keep our eyes on Him. II Chron. 20:12 Jehoshaphat prays, “We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” We can boldly and humbly pray for His strength that would be perfected in our weakest areas. We might not be healed yet in this life but we know we will be healed one day!
Our intern at Good Shepherd preached on the upside-down nature of the gospel and that glory comes through the cross. We do not ascribe to theology of glory where we expect success and go in our own strength and power but rather the theology of the cross where His glory shines out of our weakness. We hopefully can say that it is in our suffering that God makes us more like Him and draws us closer.
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