A few weeks ago a friend called, he has diabetes really bad, has already
had both feet amputated, and told me he was going to have his left arm removed
on Monday. He was shaken up, I didn’t know what to say, as it was early Sunday
morning, and caught me off guard. As I listened he told me he had come to terms
with it, and mentally was preparing, but not sure about being one armed. We
prayed, and all I could think to pray was “God, we need a miracle. NOW!” We
hung up, and I couldn’t get this out of my mind all day. I kept thinking of how
I would handle it, and realized I couldn’t, so kept reflecting back to God, “you
need to deal with it, I can’t.” Not sure what my friend was praying. But as
the hours passed, life interfered as it does, and the next day I woke up
thinking today my friend is losing his arm. Then got side tracked, until his
time of surgery, when the phone rang. It was my friend, seems the doctors did
another test, found they could treat his wound with antibiotics instead, and he
could keep his arm. God gave us just what we needed, what we had asked for, a
miracle, and we both rejoiced. I am blessed to see many miracles like this,
myself being one, and I can tell you, as much as I love hearing about miracles,
there is nothing like being one. But miracles are only temporary...at least the
physical ones.
Of all the miracles I have seen in my life, one constant remains, the
person will die. Death is 100%, we will all die a physical death, and some a
spiritual one, the physical much different than the spiritual. The apostles
dealt with this, as many miracles were performed by them, just as Jesus had.
But even all the ones Jesus healed, gaining sight, walking, sickness healed,
dead brought back from the grave, have one thing in common. They would all go
on to die a physical death, but had also been touched by the holy spirit, and
now would not die a spiritual one. Whenever Jesus healed someone spiritually,
he always gave them a physical healing to prove he was there. Physical
evidence, as seeing was believing, and how else would you explain a man blind
from birth magically seeing? A lame man for over 30 years running and jumping?
Yet both claimed Jesus for their miracle, and even the hardest hearts could not
deny the difference. I have been on both sides, and I can tell you, God leaves
his signature on your life after a miracle, for all to see. My cardiologist, a
tough man, told me after my surgery, the first and only case of its type, “it’s
evident God intervened.” He had no other explanation for my being alive, as he
told my wife after surgery there was no reason I should be. Six years
later....I still testify. And Jesus gave me a scar to prove it, and files to
back it up. But some day I too will die, and I look forward to that day in
heaven.
Physical healing is temporary, we all will die. But spiritual healing is
forever, we too all will die, but not all will see heaven. Yet we consume
ourselves with the visible, the temporal, when Paul writes the things seen are
temporal, but the things not seen are eternal. God gets it right, do we? Yet
so many live by miracles, from one mess to another, yet never see God’s healing
hand at work in their lives. When we begin to see God’s hand at work in our
lives, we grow in his grace. We change attitudes, we see him as he really is,
and a side many who only seek the physical don’t. We see him as the great
physician, the great healer, the almighty father, the eternal God who created
us. The proof is everywhere, but it takes a miracle called salvation for it to
be revealed. It takes faith, introduced and encouraged by his spirit to turn us
to Jesus, then it takes repentance and turning to him, trusting him, no matter
the situation. If he can save your soul, he can heal you. And if he can heal
you, he can save your soul also. And as scripture tells us, on that day many
believed. The question is, do you? Or is your relationship with God all about
the physical, seeing miracles, but rotting away inside? What façade are you
hiding that only God can see?
All miracles are temporary, all God is eternal. Let him perform the
ultimate miracle in you today, that of salvation, of resurrection. That which
separates Jesus from all other religions, resurrection. Something we can only
believe by faith, but will see forever. Some still seek only signs and wonders,
pursuing God like he is a sideshow. But when you seek the deeper things, when
you are faced with a situation where you need a miracle, he is there. The
question is will you settle for a temporary miracle or an eternal one? When
faced with death, will only a physical healing do? We have no promise of
tomorrow, today has enough problems of its own. But we can be assured of our
tomorrow today, by trusting Jesus. God wants to heal the whole man from the
inside out. The things not seen, we only care about what is seen. Not what God
sees....
Heaven will be filled with those who not only saw physical miracles, but
spiritual ones too. Hell will be filled with those only settling for the
temporary, who never had a spiritual healing. Both will worship at an altar
bowing to God forever, one in pain, one in glory. Temporary comes and goes,
eternity is for a long, long time. There are no do it yourself courses to
heaven. It takes Jesus. I will be in heaven, hope to see you all there. Now
that would be a miracle worth bragging about!
love with compassion,
Mike
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