Every Trial is an opportunity to trust God

Once my 7 year old son Brian asked me with much sadness in his voice," Mommy, why isn't God healing me?" He has some allergies and he has colds several times a year. He asked me this because he had colds again.

With the Lord's leading I answered, "Don't say that,anak(my child). God is going to heal you. God always answers prayers when we pray according to His will. Every sickness is an opportunity to pray to God and ask Him for healing. And we will experience God's healing in time and we will rejoice and praise Him when that happens. Every sickness is an opportunity for God to show His healing power in our lives."

That conversation taught me a valuable lesson.

'Cause the very next day my doctor told me her diagnosis of the chronic illness she suspected I had. As I felt the world cave in around me, the Lord spoke to me the very words I spoke to my son the night before---every sickness is an opportunity to trust God for healing.

I said, "Lord, you didn't make me sick but you allowed it to happen for a reason. If this is going to break me to bring me closer to you, I welcome it. If You allowed it, you will also give me the grace to stand up under it."

That was a little less 9 months ago. I am nearing the end of my medication regimen for the chronic illness.

Indeed I have seen the healing power of God in my life and I rejoice as I receive this healing from the Lord.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

By God's grace I am now beginning to understand, even in my limited, finite understanding, the depth, width, and height of the love of Jesus Christ for me. God has brought me even closer to Him after this illness. Now I understand God's grace even more through what I have experienced. Thank You Lord Jesus!

God is bigger than anything. His wisdom is far above anything on this earth. His loving kindness reaches to the heavens.

There is no one like God.

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I wrote this on September 25, 2006. By October I was completely healed. God is faithful even in times of sickness. Even if we get sick, and even if we will die of our sickness, God is faithful. Sickness cannot separate us from the love of the Lord Jesus. We always have hope whatever situation we are in because the Lord Jesus rose from the dead and conquered sin and death. We always have hope because God does not change and His love for us is so deep, so wide, and so high, more than we could ever comprehend.

P.S. My son's colds don't occur that often anymore, praise God! He knows that God answers prayers!