Healing is one of the most important things you can learn about in life. Why? At some point in your life, you or someone very close to you is going to need it. You or someone very close to you will be sick, and the options given you by the medical community will not be good ones. They may have nothing for you but means to prolong your life without giving you quality of life. You may have to take medications that have side effects as bad as the original condition.

I have learned that you don’t want to wait until you are diagnosed with something serious before you learn about this. That would be like going off to war without ever having gone to boot camp.

Healing for some people is like winning the lottery, but for most people it is like fighting off somebody who is trying to break into your house.

But beyond all this, healing will teach you more about God than you will probably ever learn otherwise. When you pray for other people and other things, you are not the only person who is involved in the outcome. So the first mountains you want to move are the ones in your own life and body. As you see these move, you will gain confidence to move others.

Healing might be the first place in which you will see miracles from God. God will seem more real to you, and you will become more aware of His love when you see Him work on your behalf.

In 1996, I was diagnosed with stage 3, mixed cell, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. I refused all medical treatment and have not received any medical treatment since then for that. It was quite an experience, and I have written a book, called The Importance of Healing, that tells about it as well as just about everything else I have learned about healing from the Bible and life.

I am not trying to sell you a book here. I am trying to save your life. Or least give you an understanding of God and the Bible which is usually sadly missing today. I have started posting chapters from the book and will continue to do so.

You can get the book at amazon.com or other book sites on the internet.

I also have two other websites where I have posted my writings: poligion1.blogspot.com has my articles on politics, culture, and public life and LarrysBibleStudies.blogspot.com has my other articles on the Bible. And I have started to make videos on youtube.

If you want to contact me, email is best: lacraig1@sbcglobal.net

Thank you.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

If God is for us



If God is for us   Romans 8:3
   Romans 8:31 What then are we to say about these things?  If God is for us, who is against us?  8:32 He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else?  8:33 Who will bring any charge against God's elect?  It is God who justifies.  8:34 Who is to condemn?  It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.

            Yesterday we saw that the devil was able to go before God and almost demand that God or he afflict Job with incredible suffering to see if Job could love and serve God even if God did not bless him. 

            The devil had a point.  It’s like the rich person who doesn’t really know who his friends are.  There is a common theme in literature where the prince feigns poverty and obscurity to find true love.  And God thought enough of the devil’s argument to permit the test and to have the whole incident recorded for our benefit. 

            It is a basic question that we will all have to answer: do we, can we, love God for who He is and not just for what He does for us?  And related to that: can we trust God when we don’t know or understand what the *%&^%* is going on in our lives?  We will never understand everything about God or our lives.  Can we still believe in God’s goodness and justice in those times?

            But the question we need to answer now is whether the devil still stands before God and gets God to afflict us to test us.  Is all the crap that we experience in life something that God is permitting to test us and we need only grin and bear it?

            The wording of the passage we quoted from Romans suggests otherwise.  Paul explicitly asks who is there to condemn us and he then notes how that Jesus is at the right hand of God to intercede for us.  No mention is made of anyone else accusing us. 


            In the book I show in more detail why I believe that the devil no longer appears before God and irks God to afflict His people for some grand test.  Job did it so we don’t have to.  The question still needs to be answered by all of us, but the means have changed.
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