In the Beginning...

From May 23, 2008

What does healing have to do with walking with God, and walking in Jesus footsteps? When a person looks around their community, country, and beyond there are many suffering people in this world. Some are seeking relief, and others have been in abnormal situations for so long they have become accustomed to them as if the situation is normal. If we see someone who has a bodily affliction grossly affecting their health and well-being, don't we reach out and try to lift their burden?

"Hopping from the frying pan into the fire." Many times folks go from one situation into another hoping that the next one will be 'the cure', only to find that it's the same situation, only the names are different. That is because they haven't healed the disease. The disease is rebellion against God. Rebellion, or the old fashioned word is sin, against God who loves us and really wants only the best for us--to cure our disease.

Like a broken bone that needs to be brought back into line and set into place, we all need to align or realign our lives by God's standard. At first it may not be pleasant. We are comfortable in the 'old ways', and now to try to change...usually something will yowl at us. Our selves, our families, friends, all can become adversaries to a change.

1Peter 4:2-4 " that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3)For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: 4) wherein they think strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:"

It then becomes necessary to honestly sit back and look at our lives and situations. The things that don't work are the ones that ignore God's standards, the ones that try to do things 'our own way'. When we realize that there has to be a better way, because 'mine' just isn't working.

There is no substitute for study of the Bible, and no substitute for prayer. We must approach Bible study with the attitude of 'help me to bring my life into accordance with Your will'.

If Jesus was willing to say: Luke 22:42 saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

Jesus is our ultimate example... we also need to go and do likewise.

Hallelujah! What a Saviour!