Faith, Healing and a Big Toe

About five weeks ago, my big toe which has a pin inserted in it from a surgery many years ago, began to hurt. This pain lasted for a few weeks and it was to the point where I was ready to go to a doctor since it was hurting abnormally too much. Maybe there was internal bleeding? Maybe something had gone wrong? The pin, maybe it had moved?

One day, I went out with a friend and spoke to some college students about God and his Son Jesus. We spoke with several people all to different degrees.

When I went home that night, my toe was causing a great deal a pain. I took off my sock and analyzed it. It loooked a little swollen and purple. I was going to have to see a doctor the next day.

That is when I got down on my knees, I confessed all my sins and the I cried out to God to stop the pain. And guess what? The pain went away. It'sbeen about three weeks and the frustrating pain hasn't came back. I still feel a little discomfort now and then, but nothing like what I was experiencing. Better yet, the discomfort brings my focus back to God.

Once, a man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus and said, "Lord if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Jesus touched the man and said, "I am willing. Be clean." Immediately the man was cured.



Jesus heals many times, and what I learned from these miracles is that:
1. It takes FAITH.
The man with leprosy had faith. Notice what he says. He believes that if Jesus was willing, he could heal him. We must BELIEVE in the power of God.

As Jesus tells a Centurion when he asked for his servant, who was paralyzed, to be healed, "Go! It will be done just as your BELIEVED it would." (Matthew 8)


For myself, I believe it takes FAITH, sometimes humbling myself to crying out on my knees. I also believe it takes LOVE for Jesus. Jesus says to show our love for him, we must obey his commands. When he says go out and spread the good news, I felt that was what was I doing that day, in talking to college students. I was expressing my love for Him.


And these are the reasons for healing.

Lord provide us the grace to strengthened our faith. Let us love you by following your commands. Then let us be witness to your blessings.