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.