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.

Thursday, July 3, 2014

The Compassion of Jesus



The Compassion of Jesus


  Matthew14:14 When Jesus went ashore, He saw a great crowd; and He had compassion on them and healed their sick.
             It is commonly taught that Jesus healed the sick to show people, including us, that He was the Messiah.  Yet when the religious leaders asked Him for a sign, He always refused to give them one.
            Here it says that Jesus healed the sick, because He had compassion on them.  And He didn’t pick and choose among the crowd.  He healed all of them.  Well, it doesn’t come right out and say all, but it’s hard to think that His compassion on a crowd would mean that He would help some but not others.
            We say we have a personal relationship with Jesus.  The only Jesus we know is the Jesus of the Bible.  We believe in the compassion of Jesus, but we don’t think that Jesus acts on His compassion.  He may feel our pain, but we cannot expect that He will relieve it.  Why is that so hard to believe?

            I know there are so many questions about healing, and these little snippets hardly do justice to all of them.  That’s why I wrote a book.  I hope you will take advantage of that.
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