God Wants Us Healed

When we look at the people around us what do we see? While people are adapt at putting on faces and putting up fronts, the truth is that we are going to see people around us who are hurting. We are going to see troubled people in need of peace, lonely people in need of relationship, people without hope in desperate need of hope, and sick people in need of healing.

And this goes doubly when we enter into the church.

People are hurting and in need in so many ways. They may be financially in debt. They may be emotionally scarred because of some past trauma. They may have a physically ailment due to disease or illness. They may have suffered a loss of a friend or loved one. Their family relationship may be strained to the breaking point. Or they may be discouraged and exhausted due to living in this crazy mixed up world.

But there is hope. Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).

Jesus invites us to Himself to find the healing we need, but it may not occur immediately. We see this in His promise that in this world we will have trials and tribulations, but also He said that He has overcome this world, which should bring great joy to our hearts (John 16:33).

God can heal us immediately and miraculously, but He also may also give us the power to endure the difficultly, problem, or trial and triumph over it while we’re still in it.

Devine healing is all about becoming well, but healing in the Bible isn’t becoming what we were, rather it is becoming all the God intends for us to be.