Healer

There is a song called "Healer", the story behind it isn't necessarily the meaning that is put behind it every time it is sung... You can look it up if you want. However, I was listening to it this morning, and I know this is an older song, and this question has probably been asked a billion times, but it is always a faith check for me: When you're faced with a great need for healing... whether it be healing from disease, perpetual sin, poverty, a broken world, a starving community, etc. and so on, what does it mean to you to be able to say to God that,

"I believe that You're my healer. I believe you are all I need. I believe you're my portion, I believe you're more than enough for me."

Or even,

"You hold my every moment, you calm my raging seas, you walk with me through fire, and heal all my disease... I trust in you, Lord I trust in you?"

It brings me to my knees every time. It breaks my heart every time to know that there is such evil in this world that no man can overcome. But it stretches my faith every time when I go to God with that brokenness. A number of insecurities rise up when I ask for healing for big problems: I'm not good enough to ask for these things... What if there is no healing... But I am just one person... what if people think these are empty words... but the truth is, there is no truth in those thoughts.

For there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. For me, in Jesus Christ. For I have been set free from the standards of this world that WOULD indeed make me not good enough, small as one person, empty and wordless..but I am not living in the realm of flesh and blood but of freedom and the Spirit of God. And it is my obligation to live according to it. So I continue to hope for what I do not have. When I do not know what to pray, the Spirit of God prays for me. When I am weak God helps me. And I know that God works for my good.

So, what do I say to these things that are in need of healing, to my weakness, and my insecurity? I say, that if God is for us, who can be against us? And nothing can separate us from God's love. Nothing can separate those who are in need of healing from the love of God or from the power of God. Not even our own sin, not even our own brokenness, not even the evil things that are in this world. I do believe that God is my healer, he is this world's healer. When I am challenged to be the one who God uses to bring healing, and my insecurities rise up, I can claim and know that I can indeed do all things through Christ who gives me the strength.

(Bible references come from James 1, Romans 8, and Philippians 4).

...and that's all I have to say about that.

-Lindsay