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Blaming Someone When a Loved One Dies
What NOT to say when someone you love isn't healed. We believe that God is Sovereign and everything that happens, happens because we believe what God says in Isaiah 55:8-9, “For, My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts."
This is one of the weightiest issues for Christians who believes the Lord heals by faith today. It is the ultimate question that must have an answer. And there is no easy answer. But I will try to give some clarity. Here’s how it goes. The Bible teaches that God does everything in our lives through faith, from salvation to healing. No one who knows the Bible can deny that. Many times Jesus said, “According to your faith let it be to you,” and every time He said it He was referring to healing. By grace you have been saved through faith.
Here’s the problem. Someone you love is sick and everybody is praying for him with all the faith they can muster. They are believing with all their heart. But the loved one dies anyway. Then someone comes up to you and says, “If you had more faith your loved one would not have died.” That’s a double whammy. First, your loved one dies and you are in deep mourning. Second, you are being blamed for that loved one’s death.
Your response to all this is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. You will either let it destroy your faith in what the Bible teaches about faith and healing, you will never pray for someone to be healed again. Or you will take it and say, “You know what? I am not perfect at this. I have a lot to learn. Father, would you teach me what I need to know so I can more effectively pray for the sick.”
Don’t form your theology out of your wounds; form it out of what you know of Jesus from the gospels. Paul wrote, “We are bound to thank God because your faith grows exceedingly.” (2Thessalonians1:3) Ask God to grow your faith and help you do better in praying the prayer of faith. This tragedy could be the very thing God will use to spur us on to larger faith. None of us have yet been conformed to the perfect image of Christ. We are ever learning to be more like Jesus... to read more click on the following link:
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