Healing and in Love

What happens when our bodies takes on a cold or an illness? It shuts down things that it doesn’t “need” to put the energy it can into healing the ailment. I have been doing a good job of staying healthy this year…..until now. I just got hit. My throat is sore. My head will be exploding in a few hours. I can’t breath. I’m talking like Steve Urkel right now. “Did I do that?” lol Anyways, it got me thinking. What happens when we are spiritually sick? What happens when we go on with life and not treat that sickness? If our physical body shuts down specific things  but do we have spiritual areas of our life that shuts down? If we were healthy what would we be able to do? Think about it. Would we think about ourselves anymore? Or would we feel the freedom to look past ourselves with confidence and look at the hurting world around us with compassion and experience. Would we be able to use our talents and actually be excited about seeing the results afterwards, not for our sake, but because we are so excited we want to run to our Father and say “Look, see what I found” or maybe “Look Dad, I made this for you” I remember growing up, as a kid, playing sports. Whenever there was a play I made, or I played good defense, I turned to my dad for that recognition that I was valuable and treasured by him. Did he need me to do that for him? No, probably not. But something happens when we invest ourselves into something and look back and find that our dad is smiling upon us. No matter what background you are from, what do we look for as we grow up and even as adults? We look for his admiration especially if he wasn’t involved that much. 

So let’s go back to talking about being sick. It is true that our body heals most cases on it’s own. But it’s an internal thing that reflects on our skin. We aren’t taking our own hands and scooping anything out or performing surgery on ourselves. Same thing spiritually, we can’t physically make ourselves truly healthy. Something is at work within us. It takes a long time sometimes and sometimes it’s a minor cut or bruise. I believe the same happens within us spiritually. Something is at work within us that changes us and heals us. 

Going back to playing on the field, I may have made a great play or something to that affect but if you were to look on my clothes they were dirty, sometimes body, always had a smell to them. My mom sometimes calls it “You smell like outside” In other words, that event was at the cost of torn clothes and bloody socks, but it was worth it. 

Do we need to be healthy? Absolutely. Is it us that makes ourselves healthy? Yes and no. We make the decision to see a doctor. We go to someone that knows our body and knows what it needs to heal. This is the only real churchy sounding thing I’m going to say. but I believe it’s the truth. God loves us. He made our bodies. He made them so they can persevere through pain and abrasions. He will complete a good work in us. In other words He’s not done refining us to be made in His Image. He is the one that heals physically and spiritually. However, even with the torn clothes and holes in our shins from falling down we still have the awesome privilege of his admiration. We can do things to try and please them, but deep down he loves us no matter what. 

So why not take the time and hang out with Him? Why not take the time to soak up his love? Why not get other people excited that they to can find healing? Imagine Heaven where people are healed and together are in community with God. Imagine Him smiling with full acceptance and admiration of you. Imagine he loves you for you. Imagine that all he desires is that you love Him. Truly. Deeply. Love Him.