God Hasn’t Healed Me, Doesn’t He Care?
8th July 2009 by Bereaved No CommentsWhen is the best time to worship God? In great times, when you’re on top of the world? In normal times, when everything is going well? Or in hard times, when your life is coming apart at the seams? When you lose your health, when your parents die, when you lose everything you treasure?
In the Bible, a guy named Job in one day lost all his possessions, his workers were all murdered and his sons and daughters died in a sudden accident. The first thing he did is something we find very natural in painful times. He grieved for what he had lost. But his second action is so unlike how we react to pain in our own lives. Even while grieving, he fell on his face and worshiped God. We get angry with God, we think He doesn’t love or care for us. We fear that God has turned His back on us, and so we turn away from Him. Or we beg Him and promise that we’ll worship Him after He restores our hearts and heals our body. We argue with Him that if He loves us, He should prove it by healing us and then we’ll finally quit sinning, start witnessing, etc.
Several times in the Bible, Jesus tells someone “your faith has healed you”. When we are experiencing pain, it feels like God is being mean to us us by demanding that we believe we have healing while we are still feeling the pain, or that He is asking us to praise Him while He seems so far away.
Oddly enough, the truth is actually backwards. Faith comes from knowing deep down who God is, and when we know that in our hearts, we want to worship God who is our healer, He is the creator of all things, He does sustain and protect us, He does give us grace for today, hope for tomorrow, and assurance for eternity. When we truly know who He is, then we have to acknowledge Him in worship. That doesn’t mean pretending that we aren’t hurting.
We find healing when we worship in God’s presence.
If you’re hurting right now, if you feel lonely and forsaken, put on some worship music with healing lyrics, and start acknowledging God for who He is and what He’s already done in your life.
