Medicine & Miracles

So good to catch up with Sarah in Singapore today! She similarly took a year out of her training to do a DTS in Tauranga - where we met. Though she’s a lot further on than I am...she’s about to begin a post as a palliative care doctor in a local hospice!

She has been a huge encouragement. Often I felt like the biggest sceptic during DTS...so many testimonies of miracles and healings, and yet I don’t want to believe any story that isn’t true. Because I fear that would somehow belittle faith in the things that are true, if we simply believed everything we heard. How do you have faith like a child without being naïve?

I believe that God is a healer, that He has the power to do miracles today (and wonderfully, the compassion to want to!) But my mind is trained to base faith on evidence - which I can’t help but agree with, as long as our reasoning does not wander into pride. Where does that leave us in interpreting the stories we hear but have not seen, and do not know the source? Blind belief in exaggerations can leave us disillusioned, but cynicism can rob us of wonder and awe.

Chats with Sarah were always reassuring...that asking questions can be a helpful thing! Because sometimes, but not always, questions may lead to answers. Even if there are scientific explanations for healings, through the way our bodies are designed to fight illness and repair damage - I believe that it is God’s kindness and power behind that design. His kindness and power is not rare, but visible everywhere. Lord, open my eyes!
And He is willing and able to one day end all sickness and pain - He who promised is faithful.