May 8, 2018 - Acts 3
It is Jesus' name and
the faith that comes through him that has completely healed this man, as you
can all see. Acts 3:16
What can faith in Jesus
do for your life?
There are two extremes when it comes to faith and
healing.
The first is to believe all healing comes from faith, and if
a person believes, God will do the healing.
Certainly God is fully capable of doing anything He wishes, and we
believe He wants us to be well. So with
enough faith, we can expect to be healed.
Believing that means anyone who didn’t get well would not have had
enough faith, or had some sin issue in their life. But the fact is: Jesus had perfect faith and still died on the
cross; Jesus healed many with limited faith, but didn’t heal everyone, even
with faith. Faith alone is not the magic
formula for personal healing.
The second is to ignore faith and look for healing in
knowledge or practice, expecting men to do the healing. Certainly doctors are a great blessing to the
healing of millions of people over the years, recognizing the activities in a
person’s body and prescribing a remedy.
We see constant progress in the knowledge of our bodies and improvements
in our ability to help it heal, and would be remiss to ignore their effectiveness. But the fact is: people have found healing through faith;
doctors cannot solve every problem and certainly don’t heal everyone. Knowledge is not the answer either.
Maybe extremes are not the best option. Maybe faith is not just having faith in God’s
power to directly heal us, but also having faith in God’s development of
doctors to heal us as well. Maybe faith
is not limited to fixing our health, but faith is the manner of managing our
health. Certainly we can have faith in a
God who has all authority over life, but we can also have faith in a God who
created knowledge and called doctors to help our life. In fact, maybe faith isn’t about just being
healed physically, but instead faith is about living healthy spiritually.
Faith healed the man in Acts 3, but it came through
Peter. In a sense, Peter was the doctor. The healed man had to have some faith in what
Peter said, and by faith, he was restored.
By all means, we need to have faith in order to be
healed. We need faith in something – a medicine,
a doctor’s diagnosis, a God’s direction.
Trusting Jesus for your health is wise. But how much more would faith in
Jesus affect ALL areas of our life? Put
your faith in the Name of Jesus, and the people God equipped around you. Maybe all you need to see God’s power in your
life is a little faith …
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