Download - The Perfect Wisdom Web

Be Not Afraid Healingself-absorbed person has been brought low bymisfortune or tragedy and turned into a humbler, moreloving one, has he been harmed or healed? Perhaps weare too limited in our thinking, those of us who think ofhealing merely in physical terms.That wholeness and healing can be found in deathas well as in life is not hard to accept in the case of anelderly person who has lived life to the full and is readyto go. But the thought is valid, regardless of age. WhenZach, a young man, was stricken with an aggressivecancer, his congregation prayed that God might healhim and bring him back to health. Zach received topnotchmedical care at a local university hospital, andfor several months he defied the odds and bolsteredhis supporters’ confidence. At one point he was evenpronounced in remission. Then, about a month later,he suddenly took a downturn. In a matter of weeks hewas gone.Speaking with Zach and his family shortly before hedied, I sensed that their church’s continuous prayersfor healing, while sincere, had not necessarily lessenedtheir ordeal – and had made it even harder at times.How should they react, for instance, when wellmeaningfriends insisted that Zach would pull through,when their gut feelings told them that the opposite wastrue? Should they just play along – “trust in God” andpretend to believe what they couldn’t? Not knowing1