The First Ministry with Eternal Value

Introduction to Greatest Ministry of All

I would like you to look forward to an ongoing account of a ministry to which every Christian believer is called. The Ministry of Reconciliation is a pwerful ministry. It is a "God with Us" ministry. It is enabled by the supernatural grace of God and directed by the omnisapience of the Holy Spirit. I leave you with these verses to recite in you heart and reflect in your spirit as we journey through the Ministry of Reconciliation together. 2 Corinthians 5:11–21 (ESV)

The Ministry of Reconciliation

11 "Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 

16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 

(To Be Continued)

Healing in the Christian Sense

In order to understand the nature of healing we must understand the reason healing is needed. As you can recall we left off with a question. An unblemished creation, a perfect caricature of a protected fetus in the most perfect of environments, all at once in an instant of time may be subject to harm at any given moment either while in the womb, at birth, as a child and adult through the sojourn of this life. Why does it become necessary for repair, restoration to soundness and spiritual wholeness become an eternal healing pulse?

In essence, the word healing has connotations of being restored and protected. It has become necessary for humans in the natural and supernatural sense to be protected. The rightful meaning the the word healing is to restore to health or soudness, to set right; repair, to restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness. Healing in the Christian sense is to be sound in spirit, mind and body. A necessary spiritual wholeness that requires an active administration and conferment upon an individual from a power source greater than the self.

The notorious phrase "physician heal yourself" is a perfect illustration of what the natural human is incapable of. We cannot heal ourselves. We can take action to move into an healing experience and life practice. We must cooperate and put into practice the things we know will yield a greater sense of wholeness.  However, healing in the Christian sense requires an eternal, infinite omnipotent divinity with perfect and unblemished attributes. Anything less would be insufficient to true and perfect healing which is an infinitely divine eternal work.

This Gift of Healing

This gift of healing begins with the gift of life. As I mentioned in the introduction the gift of healing is an eternal gift and is extended to you and I before we are born. The beautiful creation of life, a collection of intricately designed cells of the highest order arranged in amazing systems that function in unison and balance against all odds. Imagine out of this complex adhesive building of cells is the form of a human being. This human being intelligently and supernaturally engineered to live, think, express emotions like love and fear and to interact with a complex world. The artistic expression of a living supernatural God with the distinct plan of preserving this fearful and wonderful creative work.

An innocent fetus protected in the cocoon of God's warm bathing fluid of nurture to grow into a living newborn. Is healing really necessary for this protected delicate human that has known no fear, hatred, or any other destructive force. According to God;s point of view none are ever born without the blemish of the harmful interactions resulting from the fall of the human race. Holy Scriptures tell us that all have sinned and fall short of God's glory ("For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans. 3:23). It is hard to believe that such a beautiful gift is ladened with this blemish especially when God affirms to us that we are made in his likeness and image.

Jesus Heals, An Eternal Gift

This amazing life that begins in the mind of God and is formed in the womb of a woman. What is it about this mystery of God that confounds the human heart? So, the healing work begins at the moment of conception embracing every attribute of God and yet simultaneously marred by the volition of the natural. We humans are natural, and God? He is supernatural. No measure for our infinite minds. His mind forms life and ours destroys it! How can we that are made in the image and likeness of God consent to the destruction of this gift of life. We are conceived with the grace of healing as God has the foreknowledge of what will come. In the mind of God the need for healing begins at conception and extends into the eternal.

What human would intend to harm a helpless newborn or for that matter animal? This harm is not conceived in the heart of God as his attributes encompass love, holiness and purity. The harm is bred in the heart of the human making the need for healing expedient. The question then is, if God recognized this problem of pain then why did he not provide a prophylactic for it to spare us its agony? He has and it is called healing. Healing begins in the womb and will be perfected in the eternal grace and love abiding in Christ in the hereafter. God created humans as eternal beings from the beginning of time. Healing extends from conception and beyond the grave. We need every ounce of it at every moment of life. Healing is an eternal gift!