God Hasn’t Healed Me, Doesn’t He Care?
9th July 2009 by admin No CommentsWhen do we praise God? When life is easy, when you’re on top of the world? In okay times, when everything is going well? Or in hard times, when your life is crashing down around you? When cancer takes away your health, when your family die, when you lose everything you value?
In the Bible, a man named Job in one day lost everything he owned, his employees were all killed and his childen died in a sudden accident. The first thing he did is something we naturally do in painful times. He grieved for what he had lost. But the second action he took is so unlike how we respond to pain in our own lives. Even while grieving, he fell on his knees and worshiped God. We become angry with God, we accuse Him of not loving or caring for us. We fear that God has turned His back on us, and so we turn away from Him. Or we plead with Him and swear that we’ll praise Him after He restores our hearts and heals our body. We argue with Him that if He loves us, He should prove it by healing us and then we’ll finally quit sinning, start witnessing, etc.
Multiple times in the Bible, Jesus tells someone “your faith has healed you”. When we are going through pain, it feels like God is playing a cruel trick on us by demanding that we believe we have healing while we are still feeling the pain, or that He is asking us to praise Him while He seems so far away.
Oddly enough, the truth is actually the reverse. Faith comes from knowing deep down who God is, and when we know that in our hearts, we want to worship God who is our healer, He is the creator of all things, He does sustain and protect us, He does give us grace for today, hope for tomorrow, and assurance for eternity. When we truly know who He is, then we have to acknowledge Him in worship. Worshiping Him doesn’t mean pretending that we aren’t hurting.
As we worship God with words and music, we enter into His presence in an intimate way, and in God’s presence is the true healing we needed all along.
If you’re hurting right now, if you feel lonely and forsaken, put on some healing worship music, and start acknowledging God for who He is and what He’s already done in your life.
