Monday’s post Heart for Worship stirred up conversation between a friend and I about faith and healing. Here’s part of her reply (by the way, she heard the same message I heard):
Heart of Worship…thanks for your words. I walked away from worship today wondering if [Pastor] Marc really believes that healing is so related to faith (a nasty line to draw) and then i read your words..” We all are broken people. And God can use each of us in our own weakness… God’s light shines best when we admit our brokenness and come to Him with a humble heart” God grant this for Jesus sake, that we come to Him and help shine His light all over the earth.
After reading her response via facebook I was a bit worried that other people might have thought my preacher-hubby implied in his message that all you needed to have was faith in order to be healed. But that wasn’t his intention. The intention was to get us away from striving to be significant and to find how Christ works best in our weakness. (if this isn’t true, oh sweet husband of mine, please comment below!)
I opened my Bible to Matthew 17 where the disciples could not heal a child with demon possesion. Jesus did and scolded them for having such little faith. Here’s the passage:
When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
“O unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.
Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
He replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Now, if you are like me, you believe the Bible to be true.
However, do you believe these words to be true for YOU? That if YOU had faith as small as a mustard seed YOU could move a mountain?
hmmm… read more of my thoughts on this subject at ExemplifyOnline.com. Look for the title “Oh me of little faith”.
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