You know, if God healed at everyone’s beck and call, all that would happen would that people would be using Him just for what they can get out of Him.
The same kind of mentality the name it and claim it crowd seems to have.
In the meantime, I will say with Job, though he slay me yet I will trust Him.
You know, I was thinking that we think death is about the worst thing that can happen to someone and for someone who is not saved, yes, that is true, but death is not to God what it is to us.
For God it’s about eternal separation from Him. Our physical death as believers amounts to *absent from the body is to be present with the Lord*. We already died to self spiritually and are alive to God in Christ. God cannot be charged with murdering His children because physical death occurs.
Amen, mm. AMEN!
What you said made me think about Obama's health care proposals that include "no preexisting conditions" clauses. What that basically does is force an insurance company to pay for your health care EVEN if you just came down with a exorbitantly expensive type of disease. You could refuse to get any health insurance until you found out you were sick and then the insurance company would HAVE to accept you and cover your costs. Or, think if automobile insurance companies or homeowner insurance was stuck with this. You don't need car insurance until the day you get in a wreck, then you sign up and they have to pay for it. Your house burns down so you go and get homeowners insurance the same day and they have to replace it???
I DO think this kind of thinking is rampant with the name it/claim it folks. What I can't understand is why so many people fall for it when so few ever reap the promised results and they are usually those who are part of the "ministry" in the first place. Almost like the investment expert who makes his money, not investing, but by getting people to buy his books and attend his seminars telling them how they can get rich in the stock market.
Everything I have learned from Scripture on this point is that God is much more interested in eternity than he is in the here and now. This lifetime is but a moment compared to eternity and if I had to choose between a cushy, lavish, pain free life on earth and eternity with my Savior that comes with his words saying, "Well done my good and faithful servant.", Imma gonna go with the latter!