The God of Miracles Cares for You
The bible study that I was reading the morning after my miracle was Luke 8:43-48. The story of the woman who touched Jesus’ robe and was healed. It was a continuation of a lesson God was teaching me. Part of me wanted to shout from the roof what had just happened. Another part wanted to keep my personal business private because I had seen first hand how people can treat you differently when they know you have had a medical issue. Not to mention I was wrestling around some big questions and a bit of guilt.
God’s loving response of being healed because I trusted Him was both incredible and made me wonder why He chooses to heal some and not others. I’ve witnessed some very trusting people go through terrible trials and not be healed in this life, my son for one. Thinking about my son, I felt a bit of guilt that I had been healed and he was not. As I was thinking about this God asked me a question, “What makes you think I didn’t perform a miracle for them?”
A miracle by definition is an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs; divine guidance or care. That’s exactly what I felt during my experience, cared for by God. I know that Brock did too. If my test results had been different that wouldn’t mean that God didn’t care about me, that would just mean that He had another plan for me. My healing is to serve a purpose that He will reveal to me step by step. Brock’s call home served God’s purpose then and continues to serve His purpose now.
Many times after Brock went to be with Jesus, we would talk with other families dealing with cancer. I would hesitate to comment because I remembered always wanting to hear stories of healing while he was going through treatment. Those stories would remind you that it can happen, healing miracles can happen. When they would ask how he was doing and we would tell them that he passed away you could see the fear in their faces, was that going to happen to their child?
But I realize now that I was focusing on the wrong thing. Yes you feel so desperate and at times hopeless in those situations, but that’s exactly when you need to know that God cares for you. He will walk through the fire with you. He will comfort you and strengthen you. He will give you hope and a future.
God did all of that for me and my family. He walked through the fiery trials with us and we were never alone. He would send encouragers at just the right moments. He comforted us when the healing miracle didn’t happen in this life. He strengthened us over time by continuing to care about every detail of our lives and He gave us hope and a future.
The greatest miracle possible happened through losing Brock, our family was saved. That’s an eternal miracle. Physical healing is only for this life and although I experienced a physical healing, someday I will die, unless Jesus comes first. Every time someone accepts Christ the angels in heaven rejoice. They are celebrating a miracle, someone has experienced the God who cares.
That’s what God wants me to do, share the miracle of the God who cares. Others will walk down halls in fear, loose loved ones and face fierce battles. But they don’t have to do it alone. The miracle greater than physical healing is experiencing God. In time people try to explain away a miraculous healing with things like, it was a wrong diagnosis, the medication did the trick and many other things. But when you experience the God who cares for you, there is no denying that it’s a miracle.
In the same bible study I was reading it says, “When the woman realized that she couldn’t remain hidden, she knelt trembling before him. In front of all the people, she blurted out her story—why she touched him and how at that same moment she was healed.”
This woman told her story. Imagine her standing in a large crowd of people reveling an ailment that was so private and so personal, blurting to the crowd that she had just been healed. She had received a miracle from the God who cares and those around her could not deny that it happened.
When Jesus asked, “who touched me,” they all denied it, Peter pointed out, “Master, everyone is touching you, trying to get close to you. The crowds are so thick we can’t walk through all these people without being jostled.” In the Passion Translation of this story, the footnotes state, “many today crowd around the Bible, the written Word. But only those who “touch” the Scriptures in faith receive its promises, just like the sick woman received her healing.”
A promise from God is that He cares for you. If we would reach out and touch that promise when we are struggling, desperate, lonely, hurting and sick, He will show Himself as the God who cares. We just need to take the risk trusting Him, and then live healed and whole. Live well, live blessed!
My prayer
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I will look to the Lord;
I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me
Father, I know that You are the God of Miracles and that You care for me. Help me to trust You with anything and everything, nothing is to private or personal for You. You see me. You know my fears and my needs and You have a cure for all of them. Give me words to speak boldly about Your presence in my life and to help others see that a relationship with You is the greatest miracle of all. Amen
Where does my help come from?
1 Peter 5:7
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
Luke 8:48
“Jesus said, “Daughter, you took a risk trusting me,
and now you’re healed and whole. Live well, live blessed!”