A dear friend of mine told me that her Dad just contracted cancer. She's a christian but her father isn't. When asking about where is God in the picture, we think about how through prayers, we can obtain 2 things:
1) her father can get healed from cancer, then believe in God and eventually go to heaven.
2) her father can obtain salvation and go to heaven.
Question is, which is better, get healing (prayers answered), then believe or get salvation and then still die and go to heaven?
I always thought the latter is more cruel, but come to think of it, unless there is something that has to be done but not yet done... why not die and go to heaven for a better life?
I recently learn that perhaps sometimes, we fall sick/disease strucked not because of God. Rather, it could be that Satan/the devil, who bring in this sickness and problem, and therefore, when we pray for healing, we're asking God to intervene to the situation and allowing His glory to shine because He was the one who healed the sick.
bottom-line, we ought to pray. The prayer should come with an attitude of surrender and not entitlement. Because the truth is, the only thing we're entitled to is, we're entitled to rely on God for everything in our lives.
1) her father can get healed from cancer, then believe in God and eventually go to heaven.
2) her father can obtain salvation and go to heaven.
Question is, which is better, get healing (prayers answered), then believe or get salvation and then still die and go to heaven?
I always thought the latter is more cruel, but come to think of it, unless there is something that has to be done but not yet done... why not die and go to heaven for a better life?
I recently learn that perhaps sometimes, we fall sick/disease strucked not because of God. Rather, it could be that Satan/the devil, who bring in this sickness and problem, and therefore, when we pray for healing, we're asking God to intervene to the situation and allowing His glory to shine because He was the one who healed the sick.
bottom-line, we ought to pray. The prayer should come with an attitude of surrender and not entitlement. Because the truth is, the only thing we're entitled to is, we're entitled to rely on God for everything in our lives.
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