EVIDENCES OF
SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL HEALING
“Bless the Lord, O my soul
and forget not all His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth
all thy diseases.” – Psa. ciii:23..
My Dear C…:
I am learning,
with you, to think infinitely more of my Lord than of self; to be a firm
believer in the nothing of the creature, and the all in all of the Creator.
I grow more and more reconciled to the past-my past. I even rejoice in
it as I realize, in some degree, what I portended and preceded. It was terrible
in the beginning, modified later, and peaceful in the end. The self-revelations,
which made me so miserable, and adverse circumstances, whereby I though all
would be lost, have proved the essential means for purging out that self-love
and complacency which was, in reality, so great, and of which I knew so little.
I see now that the solution of some of my worst difficulties lies in the fact
that I was ignorant of “Satan’s devices,” –his power to impair my union with
God by tearing me in pieces with doubts. I seemed to get further and further
from God, which was simply the verdict of my own judgment, and a lack of
trustful waiting and assurance of hope. O, I have gained a knowledge of myself
and of God, that I had not before known. I have no faithfulness but what is
inspired by my belief in His. And when I fail I am only an object of deeper
sympathy to Him, and have a stronger reason for trusting Him. I say, “See how entirely
upon Thee I depend, and depend I will.” O, Christ is precious to me. He is “holy,
harmless, undefiled.”
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| ©Peat Bakke |
I see fewer
rebukes in the Gospels, and more promises. I used to think where Christ speaks
of the grass being clothed, and then says, “Will he not clothe you, oh, ye of little
faith?” that a kind of reproof was implied. I now think that He tells us He
will clothe the “little faith,” and do it in spite of its littleness.
I am hopeful in
that I see in myself a growing semblance to the Scriptural requirements: “Be
careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”-(Phil. iv:6.) I ask for
not allotment, not even spiritual, which will not prove a living blessing. I
will present my petitions before God in the name of Jesus; the Father
heareth Him away, and sooner or later he will fulfill my desires, and good
shall the answer be.
-J. E. L.
