![]() I've labored in this meditation to avoid falling into that trap. I don't mind saying that I'm weary of those who claim to reduce healing to a formula or a manageable cause and effect phenomenon in which we can know with certainty why some are healed and why others are not. In the final analysis, virtually everything about healing remains a mystery. ![]() I'm sure that this meditation will provoke many to anger and frustration, while others, I pray, will find a measure of comfort. I don't profess to have all the answers, but I think I've got a few. It's hard to imagine a more difficult, confusing, and controversial topic than why God chooses not to heal in response to the intercessory pleas of his people. ![]() And again, like Paul, God declined to remove it. Or perhaps knowing of a loved one's "thorn" we have prayed for them. We, like Paul, have prayed incessantly to be healed. We don't know the nature of Paul's thorn, but each of us has undoubtedly suffered in a similar way, and some considerably worse. Yet, as his children, no less so than Paul, God loves us too. Yet God sovereignly orchestrated his painful thorn in the flesh and then declined to remove it, notwithstanding Paul's passionate prayer that he be healed.
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