David Ireland, diagnosed with a crippling neurological disease that would eventually take his life, was frequently asked, “Do you believe God will heal you?” He would respond with a question of his own: “Do I really need to be healed?” In his book, “Letters to an Unborn Child,” Ireland explained his thinking:
I’m firmly convinced that God is extremely good and that He does love and understand all the world and all the people in it. Does He want to heal me? I can’t even answer that. My faith is in the genuineness of God, not in whether He will do this or that to demonstrate His goodness…That’s not the nature of my relationship to God.
Instead of engaging the moral challenges brought to bear on our lives by God, we often come to God weakly, seeking comfort and remedy. We seldom consider that God’s blessing may very well be a life that withstands the crucible of a fallen world.
And such a life, lived in light of the trustworthy character of God despite circumstances,
…stands favored above all.
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