August 2 Finding Healing and Hope within Physical Illnesses We ask God, in prayer, for healing. In some of us, a physical healing takes place, to the greater glory of God. Others are granted a well-disguised blessing: the physical affliction remains. But this result is not because of wrongdoing or a lack of faith. Instead, when afflicted, we have an opportunity, through our suffering, to become more compassionate to the suffering of others, even knowing, in some small way, what Jesus felt in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus, too, wanted desperately to be freed from His suffering. He was human; He could sweat and bleed and die. But He wanted always to do God’s will. His prayer led Him to accept His suffering and give it meaning. Our prayers can help us seek physical healing. But they also can bring us to accept whatever God wills, a peace that is no less miraculous than the lame walking or the blind seeing. Prayer Lord, I pray that I might be made whole again. I pray for health so I can walk freely upon Your earth, so I can breathe deeply of the air that sustains me, so I can see clearly the beauty of all creation. I pray for the soothing of my pains, less for my own comfort than for Your glory, that I might accomplish with my life good work in Your name. Yet if the suffering will not pass, grant me the courage to make peace with my afflictions, that I might seek always to serve You. Amen.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 12:00:01 +0000
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