Out of a sense of pastoral care for those who have not been healed through our prayers, we sometimes fall back on the belief that ‘It is all in God’s timing!” It may be more truthful for us to tell the disappointed sufferer that we do not know why our prayers have not been answered; we cannot believe that God does not want to do it, so we guess( wrongly, of course) that because God is eternal, transcending time, he does not realize the urgency of the situation! …To imply that God does not care enough about our illnesses, and is prepared to let any amount of time pass by before he acts, does nothing but sow more doubt in the church. God’s timing, quite simply is now.” Wait!’ is not what Christ revealed. Expectancy concerning Jesus Christ’s willingness to heal is fundamental to prevailing, even if it does take a season to receive.

Posted by topher on Thursday, June 29th, 2006 at 00:00 and is filed under Northfield YA, Devotional. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.