Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 769 (Brief)

Healing, or Curing?

My thought on CLM 744: Healing is God’s Work

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A footnote: I haven’t heard of any instance where God chose to
replace a missing limb (lost in an accident for example). Nor do I
know of any ‘instant’ healing of deep emotional trauma. God heals,
sometimes, more slowly and surely.
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I think your footnote was meant to caution some people from praying
for a healing that can’t be had….but it is a cure that they are
asking for that can’t always be had….the healing is always
available.

It is my thought that healing, like prayer, happens instantly.
However it often takes us a very long time to become conscious of it.
Until our consciousness is changed, we live according to our
previously conscious state.

Healing comes, in my estimate, when we align our will with God’s.

And then there is this difference between healing and curing. A
person can be healed and still die…the healing has nothing to do
with being cured. Since we all will bodily die, there are limits to
how much we can be cured from our illnesses, but a healing is
someting else….it transcends health and life….Curing is something
scientific and has application upon the body only…not the spirit or
the will to live or the soul or the ability to receive healing. Some
doctors are aware of this and some are not.

Even Lazarus eventually died…but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t
healed…and rather quickly too.

- Ronald McKenzie
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