Why god chooses not to heal

There can be nothing but the miracle and mystery of grace from beginning to end. God promises that one day. Inconsistency in Miracles, Healings, and Answers to Prayer. Are Miracles Today Violations of Nature? Is God with Us in Our Depression? Candice Lucey is a freelance writer from British Columbia, Canada, where she lives with her family.

Find out more about her here. Share this. Candice Lucey Contributing Writer 19 Jan. Examples of Miraculous Healing Jesus healed a paralytic, a leper, a woman with a year bleed, and many, many more individuals. Examples of Unresolved Sickness Paul talked about a persistent problem, which the Lord chose not to remove.

Today on Christianity. You were right when you said that in this world we would have trouble. This wheelchair was a lot of trouble. But the weaker I was in it, the harder I leaned on you. And the harder I leaned on you, the stronger I discovered you to be. Thank you for giving me this bruising-of-a-blessing.

My wheelchair showed me a side of your grace I never would have seen otherwise. Then the real ticker-tape parade of praise will begin. Christ will open up our eyes to the great fountain of joy in His heart for us that is beyond all that we ever experienced on earth. God will wipe them away for me. Even in this physical suffering, Paul was following the example set down before by Jesus Himself Hebrews Hebrews For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Preparing us for a future that is bigger and brighter than anything we might enjoy in our present physical lives. We cannot possibly know all the reasons why God chooses to heal or not to heal. However, two broad categories shine forth in the Scriptures:. God heals because He is compassionate. He desires to act with kindness and gentleness towards human beings.

In the greater world around us human disobedience, indifference and disbelief often disrupt the flow of His compassion. I took her back to her Johnny Jump Up. I turned. And then I woke up in hospital. In that season, I found that my Christian friends tended to fall into one of two camps. The first camp was all about the will of God, and praying for the will of God. The second camp believed that If I had faith and believed that the Lord would heal me, then he would heal.

Those two camps tend not to play too well together. We need both. We see that played out in the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, in Daniel 3.

You may well remember the characters of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from felt-board stories in Sunday School, but this Bible story has direct implications for how we think about healing and how we pray for healing. To recap Daniel 3, King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden image and demanded that the people of God, who had been exiled to Babylon, worship it.