I am a Christian Pastor and I am bufezzleed by this. This brings up the old question of why? I know God would love to heal her, so why doesn't he?
Why does she have to live with this? If God wanted to, he could speak one word and my mom would be healed. I think my mom is a Christian, but only her and God knows the level of her faith. Some Christians love to use the "Get out of Jail Free" card when it comes to issues of people not receiving the healing that God promised us.
They accuse those that are not healed of not having enough faith for their healing. Saying to these folks that its there own fault.
I don't buy that. I'm sure there are those that this does apply to. God has a plan. Maybe healing a person at just a specific time will help others to heal, or in some way, bring God the glory for it.
As a Pastor, I know that much of the things we try to assign God blame for are our own fault.
We live in a fallen world and we fill our world with horrible chemicals and poisons. We fill our foods with poisons. We fill our soil with poisons. We even fill the very air that we breathe with poisons. I think that God has a full time job just holding back all these poisons on a daily basis from killing us.
Much of the diseases and such that we face are of our own making. I think that God does well to keep us from killing ourselves. He has to constantly clean up our messes.
I think the bottom line is that this world and the problems and diseases in it are due to us living in a fallen world. God is doing damage control. In fact, who needs Satan in all of this? We are our own worst enemy. Satan really does not have to do much but sit back and watch us destroy ourselves!
Perhaps God has to maintain some sort of cosmic Good vs Evil balance. Sort of like in the Matrix where Neo is told by the Architect that the Matrix is all about balance. Neo is that force, so the program is constantly trying to balance itself out. It does this by one side winning, then the other side. Then the pendulum swings back to the good side. Neither side ever gets much ahead of the other. Both the good and bad side have to be kept in check and in balance. Otherwise, the whole program would come crashing down and destruction would be the result.
Maybe the way the world works is not so different from the Matrix. Perhaps Good and evil have to be kept in balance. One side simply cannot get far ahead and win out over the other. If one side started winning, the world could no longer exists as it is and therefore would simply end in destruction.
Perhaps this is what happens at the end of the world. Evil leaps out in front and takes the lead. This upsets the balance and then the end comes with Good winning out over evil. Again, this sounds a lot like the final scene of the matrix.
Following that logic, there has to be an even keel of diseases and healed people on the earth. As long as we are here, till Jesus comes, the world will never be free of disease. Doesn't it seem odd to anyone else that no more have we cured one disease and another pops up to take its place??
Seems logical to me anyway. People will always, until Jesus comes, have diseases, be poor, have problems etc.
Still this is no comfort for my Mom and so many others like her.
Why cant my mom be one of them that is healed? I wonder would that mean, like that movie "The box", that someone else in the world would have to get a disease to take her place?
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