Why does Jesus heal some but not others?
When you get sick, injured or suffer from pain, that doesn’t mean your faith is lacking or you are being punished. It means you’re human. As a believer, you pray for healing. Jesus will heal you. Every time.
Jesus “forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases … crowns you with love and compassion … satisfies your desires with good things” (Psalm 103:3-5).
Jesus heals you from sickness, injury and disease you don’t know about and can’t control. If germs and your immune system could talk they’d tell you how Doctor Jesus has said a word of healing that you didn’t even know happened and it made you well. He commanded your immune system to smash those germs according to expected bodily healing.
Jesus also heals you by calling on antibiotics, medicine, surgery, good nutrition and exercise, hydration and sleep to serve his command. These prescriptions and practices are his tools and he uses them as gifts of science and medicine.
Jesus also heals you by a command outside of the normal operations of your body or science. A miracle. Maybe you know it. Maybe you don’t.
But what about sickness, injury or pain that is not healed? Some of you can testify that you live with an unhealed disease right now, that a loved one is suffering pain right now, or you know someone who died from injuries in an accident.
Jesus, what about that? Why do you heal some and not others? That’s a sincere question coming from seriously limited human understanding. Like the limited understanding we have when we don’t know a diagnosis and are asking, “Why is this happening? What is happening?” and we just don’t know.
But Doctor Jesus does. He knows everything. And, the Bible is clear, Doctor Jesus heals everything. We just don’t always know it, see it, or wait long enough for it. It can be healing we’re not looking for. It can be healing that happens according to the prescription of Doctor Jesus but we’ve self-diagnosed a different treatment. It can be the ultimate healing that eternal life in heaven is and will be for all believers.
That is God’s promise. No germs, no diseases, no sins, no lack of faith or limited understanding will stop him. Trust in Jesus. He heals it all. Pray to Jesus. He heals it all.
And through it all be sure to say, “Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits” (Psalm 103:1,2). The holy name of our Lord Jesus is a name more powerful than sickness, injury and pain.
So bow down not to any of those and their symptoms, but to the holy name of Jesus whose blessings and benefits never end for those who believe in him.
Praise him with joy! Endure sickness, injury and pain with joy! Pray to him with joy! Suffer with joy! Jesus is Lord!
Sickness and injury, sin and pain, suffering and not knowing, none of these are lord over Jesus or over you! They are not in charge. They are not in control. They don’t define you. They don’t determine how long you live or even how you live. Jesus does. The holy name of Jesus as Lord means they bow to him and serve him.
PRAYER: Jesus, your healing is so much more than I thought. More than I see and understand. Forgive my doubting heart that questioned your promise to heal, because I didn’t trust your higher wisdom and ways. Let me believe even more in your grace of healing. Amen.
DIG DEEPER: Read Matthew 13:15. When people who have closed their eyes and ears of faith to Jesus turn in repentance and believe in him, what does he say that he will do? What does that mean?