I was so excited to have started this blog. I was ready to share what I am learning along the way while studying the names of God. I didn't intend to write on the names in the order they came in the book. I prayed and thought about it and wanted to write on which one was laid on my heart. That is why it has been almost two months since I started this.....let me explain.
The name that was laid on my heart, Yaweh Rophi, means the Lord who heals. It just so happened that it was in the midst of my cousin Tony fighting what ended up being his last battle with Cystic Fibrosis. Most of you reading this know the story. He had received a lung transplant back in the late summer, and we all hoped this would give us several more years with him. That was not God's plan. I am not going to lie, I have struggled with this, along with most of my family. When things got really bad in the last few weeks, I cried out and prayed to Yaweh Rophi, I knew that he could heal Tony, my concern was would he heal him. One person's post to Tony's facebook said it best. "Our faith will accept your will, because we know it's best, but our hearts plea for healing." I know that because Tony trusted the Lord, he has received perfect healing, and I have had to learn to see Yaweh Rophi as healer of our minds and souls, as well as our bodies. And once again, God used Tony's life to do this.
In the weeks of praying so hard for him, my cousin Dana's little girl asked why God didn't give the disease to someone bad. Even as adults we question why bad things happen to seemingly "good people". However, as kind and considerate and brave as Tony was, I think that even he would agree that in and of himself he was not "good". All of the good that you saw in him was totally from God and Tony's choice to love and follow Him, and he never failed to acknowledge and give God the praise for it! He was a great witness and touched many lives for the Lord, but it was by being completely selfless and letting God use him. The same God that healed Tony from his sin and ultimately healed him from his physical disease will also heal our hearts from the pain we feel from losing someone who was so precious to us.
If you have never asked God for healing from your sin, I encourage you to do so. Just as you would go to a doctor so that he can tell you what is wrong and how to cure it, ask God to "examine" you. It may be hard, but ask him to show you anything in your life that is not pleasing to Him. The cure is easy....repent. If you truly mean it tell God you are sorry and ask Him to help you turn from it, He doesn't want you to be "sick" so I know he'll help you.
If I told of every time in my life that God healed me physically or spiritually this would become the longest blog that ever existed!
God's gift of physical healing is wonderful. To see someone we love relieved of pain or illness is priceless. But remember, physical healing is temporary, spiritual healing is eternal. It prepares us for a place where we receive glorified bodies. No sickness, no pain, no suffering. A place where Tony is running and breathing and using his strong lungs to sing praises to the Lord.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed Isaiah 53:5
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You wrote, "But remember, physical healing is temporary, spiritual healing is eternal." It is so hard for unbelievers to understand this concept. I praise God that He is healing you and others from the loss of Tony.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I was so tired when I typed the blog I thought you were going to say I said it backwards...lol. That was from the book, and it really spoke to me. Even if someone is healed from an illness, eventually that person will pass on. So that is correct, all physical healing is temporary. I am thankful that God has called me out and shown me that there is something so much more than this life. I praise Him with you!
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