When my Chester suffered his stroke I believed God would completely heal him and we would go home and get on with our life. I had steadfast faith and prayed for that to happen. Many people in fact prayed for complete healing for him but it didn’t happen. He went home to be with Jesus.
I have believed for many years that we serve a God who performs miracles and as far as I know is still in that business so why didn’t He heal my husband? I’ve spent many hours searching and asking God why. Why was he even afflicted? A previously strong healthy man. I don’t why God allowed that to happen in the first place.
Did I not have enough faith? I wasn’t the only one praying for healing many others were too.
Did he not get healed because of sin with either Chester or me? In the Bible Jesus came across a man who was blind from birth and his disciples asked him who sinned? And Jesus told him it was not because of sin he was born blind.
John 9 King James Version (KJV)
9 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
So why? I was reading in the book of Job where Job lost everything. His wealth, his servants, his ten grown children died and top that all off he got painful boils all over his body from his head to his feet. Job suffered without a cause.
Job 2:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
Job 9:17 King James Version (KJV)
17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my my wounds without cause.
Sometimes God allows certain trials to shape and to mold us. He has a plan He’s in control and sees the bigger picture. He is sovereign,we are not. Sometimes we just want our own will instead of His. His ways are always better than our ways. We have to submit to His will. Jesus had to in the garden of Gethsemane when He was praying to the Father just before he was taken to be crucified to pay the price for our sins.
Luke 22:42 King James Version (KJV)
42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Sometimes God does answer our prayers but not in the way we expect. Like I said I believed God would perform a miracle heal Chester and we would resume our normal life but actually God did heal him just not on this earth. But God did perform a miracle. Chester did get healed when he went to be with Jesus in heaven where there is no sickness or disease at all.
Revelation 21:4 King James Version (KJV)
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Here on earth we all have corruptible mortal bodies. At the resurrection all believers get incorruptible immortal bodies. We get bodies just like Jesus when he was resurrected on the third day.
1 Corinthians 15 King James Version (KJV)
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The way Chester got healed was not the way I was expecting but really if you think about it, it’s much better. He’s healed and won’t get sick ever again not even a cold or a headache again. Yeah he’s not with me or the rest of our family but he’s with our other kids that haven’t seen their dad in years. Yeah I’m lonely and empty inside without him but the hope and the thought of being together with again someday gives me the strength to go on.
I know there were lives touched by Chester while he was still here on this earth. I know I wasn’t quite as close to God before as I am now. I know God is a loving merciful gracious God and I am more heavenly minded and want souls to be saved from hell and go to heaven now. I have to trust God knows what He’s doing and submit to His will.
Here To Eternity 