[Discoveries] 01-19-07 Questions we cannot answer

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*I left Tophimus sick in Miletus. -- 2 Timothy 4:20*/
/*... Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am 
convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that 
day. -- 2 Timothy 1:12*/

I believe in healing. Yet sometimes people aren't healed.

My daughter was born with birth defects. I prayed and believed God for a 
miracle. I sat in the waiting room of the hospital praying and believing 
for supernatural healing. But, five hours later, as I propped her 
bloodstained cast on a pillow, I looked into the eyes of my 
six-month-old baby girl, eyes dulled by pain and confused by an 
experience she couldn't understand.

Why didn't God heal her? She's been through two surgeries and, apart 
from God's intervention, may need more later in life.

How do we deal with that?

Let me explain that I'm not really writing about healing. I'm writing 
about doubt, confusion and struggles. I'm writing about not 
understanding God.

Some people will look at my story and say, "God doesn't heal 
supernaturally any more." Others will say, "It just wasn't God's will." 
Others will say, "You didn't have enough faith," or "There was sin in 
your life."

None of these explanations satisfy me. I believe God still cares about 
people who suffer. The Jesus who went around healing people hasn't 
changed -- He still wants to heal, and He remains perfectly capable of 
healing. And just because someone doesn't get healed doesn't mean that 
they are at fault. Maybe they did everything right. And, yet, the 
healing didn't come.

So where does that leave me? It leaves me with a question that I'm not 
smart enough to answer.

Here's the point: If we are honest, and if we live long enough, we will 
come to questions that we can't answer. What does that mean? It means 
that God trusts us enough to trust Him with things we don't understand. 
And there is a quietness that comes when we release the reins and let 
God be God.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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