Healed!

One of the things that was accomplished through the suffering and death of Jesus on the cross was our healing. The Bible says, "by His stripes, we are healed." I think this primarily means a spiritual healing to be able to respond to the gospel but also includes our physical healing. The healings that Jesus performed while on the earth were often called signs. Signs to/for what? They were signs that pointed to something. They demonstrated that Jesus had the power to heal us spiritually (something we can't see) because He has the power to heal us physically (something we can see).

I'm a Baptist and often we shy away from the miraculous power of God to heal today. However, as I understand it, God does heal His children. He does it in one of three ways (alliterated, of course!):
1. Directly/Divinely--i.e., we are zapped and all our disease is gone, immediately and completely. He still does that today. Pray and ask for it.
2. Doctors--i.e., using modern medicine and the wisdom of the medical profession, God heals us in time. He is still to receive credit for this kind of healing. When our body "heals itself", God should get the glory. He created the body and He "upholds all things by the word of His power."
3. Death--i.e., God brings healing through the door of death. Do not think that because a Christian dies, God failed to heal them. No, He just chose for their healing to be simultaneous with their glorification.

On this last point, I read something last week in which a man's healing was described this way: "Cynthia's husband of 23 years, David, was healed in the presence of Jesus on January 31, 2008." My dad was healed in the presence of Jesus on March 29, 2006. I praise our Great God for His healing power that was accomplished for us because of the sacrifice of His Son. Oh, so great a salvation!