If we asked the woman who suffered from the issue of blood loss in the ninth chapter of the Gospel according to Saint Matthew from verses twenty to twenty-two if she was sure of recovering recovery after a "dozen years" we are not sure that the answer would be yes. For what? Because every Men is a sacred story or a project of God. Despite the multiple solutions that developments in medicine can offer us, it can happen that Men does not always find solutions to all His problems. Medicine is certainly divine, but it does not have the solution to everything. It may happen that what she offers is not enough to solve a problem. This is how Men in general and the sick that We are in particular are always in search of a better tomorrow which does not depend solely on them. Some move from doctor to doctor, and sometimes even from Church to Church, without finding solutions to their problems.
Some even become desperate causes for certain health professionals who sometimes find themselves obliged to indicate their helplessness by politely encouraging their patients to leave the hospital while others sometimes offer additional, more expensive solutions without however having the certainty that the problem will be resolved. Furthermore, even having the necessary means does not always guarantee recovery. We therefore sometimes have to face a harsh reality whose resolution does not always depend solely on Men but rather on a transcendent being who has the solution to all problems and for whom there is no cause for despair.
With Christ, there is no cause for despair
Just as salvation is divine, so is healing. The apostle Saint Paul says in the tenth chapter of his letter to the Romans in verse nine that: “If you confess that Jesus is LORD, and believe that God raised him from death, you will be saved.” (Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Books)
Also read : These experiences of suffering that seem to want to contradict the love of God
Why should He who is already saved not receive healing? Giving your life to Jesus means being sure of being healed whatever the illness. But be careful! It’s easier said than believed! Yes indeed because Men does not always clearly perceive the meaning of life and death in God. If Jesus in the eleventh chapter of the Gospel according to the Apostle John in verse 25 says (New American Standard Bible): “I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even if he dies", it is because he knows that it can happen that even the work of his servants, namely doctors and even the Men of God, does not prevent death. We cannot consider healing without taking into account the fact that death may occur. Whether we accept Christ or not, we will all die. We do not even deserve to be healed from our illnesses but God through Christ wanted us all to be worthy of being saved and being healed. If we are worthy of it through Him it means that we are not hopeless causes. Our healing as well as our death in the name of Jesus the liberator and in the resurrected Jesus Christ is a certainty. Whether an illness takes us to death or not, we are already healed by the Precious Blood of Jesus. It is not an elusive mystery. The most important thing is to ask ourselves the question of knowing in what conditions are we going to die because for a Christian and in certain conditions that we have specified through an extract from the letter to the Romans and which is in the same logic as this declaration to the Christians of Philippi in verse 21 of the first chapter: “For to me, living means living for Christ, and dying is even better” (New living translation)
Instant healing or completion of a process
Being a good healthcare professional is a gift from God, as is being good or better in all other professions. These are gifts from God in the service of Men. Since God's grace is also found among health professionals, those who approach them will have a solution to their problem even if this solution can sometimes be unsatisfactory. And even if the patient is not completely satisfied, this step will not be an unnecessary waste of time because the grace of God is with him. Even when he makes the choice to migrate from one Church to another, the grace of God will always accompany him.
Healing is not just an instantaneous event but the result of a process during which the grace of God accompanies those who seek healing. If a believer prays for another who is sick, not physically seeing the change does not necessarily mean that God's grace is not working. Some go from doctor to doctor and even from Church to Church without seeing solutions on the physical level. The fact that they see no change does not mean that God's grace is not working. Sometimes troubled by trials and illness in particular it can happen that we do not perceive certain things to the point or a day like all the others but which will be different for us because being during a period where everything will change, we arrive in a Church or to a health professional and after a prayer or treatment we notice a large change synonymous with healing and subsequently declare that the others could not do anything but that this health professional is the best or that this Church is the best perhaps without knowing that it is the grace of God which has been acting for a very long time. If it is this Men of God who is “good” or this other health professional who is “strong”, why is it not to this Men of God or this health professional that the sick person went at the beginning of what we prefer to call his healing process?
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God's plan for each Men is mysterious; some see the palpable signs of their healing immediately while others have to wait several days, weeks, months, years. The woman suffering from blood loss waited several years. We are no longer going to say twelve years but several because it is no longer about her; it’s about Us. Note also that the cause of this disease is not specified. Perhaps to let us know that an illness can have several causes and that whatever the causes or the degree of advancement of the illness there are always favourable outcomes in Jesus for the suffering person and who wants to be healed.
If we consider the fact that Jesus began his public ministry at the age of 30, and that he exercised it for three years, this would mean according to the Gospel according to Saint Matthew that this woman's illness began when Jesus was between 18 and 21 years old. She has exhausted all means of recourse until the day she hears that there is a Men who heals everything, exactly as some of Us are accustomed to expressing ourselves in our multiple social and cultural contexts.
She therefore decides not to meet him, not to be touched by him, not to expose her problem to him, but to just touch the fringe of his clothing because she has already done everything and has not had a favourable solution. The testimony of others or rather the fame of Jesus gave him hope. So she put all her hope and even her faith on the JESUS solution and she was instantly healed to the point where Jesus himself realized that something extraordinary had happened.
The testimony of this woman, which is CERTAINLY that of many other Men, is proof that the grace of God accompanies all those who put their hope in Him. The solution is found in Churches but also in health facilities, and all other serious places with caring people within them. Anyone who has the means to seek consultation and follow treatment must do so. Anyone who has the means to go to Church or who has chosen to go from Church to Church should not be embarrassed. Who knows where the healing process will end?
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