Sawblade's speeches

So they made us come in to work on Saturday. And the software didn't work. :P Isn't life ironic?

Why is it that every time Technology attempts to release bug fixes for the software that we are supposed to be testing, the software ends up worse than it did before?! Although I guess on the bright side, if everything worked perfectly I'd be out of a job.

I've been delving into a bit of literature recently regarding divine healing. I just finished reading Jim Lynn's book, "The Miracle of Healing In Your Church Today." The book contains testimonials of people who have had divine healing intervention today's world, which is certainly refreshing to know that God still heals today. The book puts a really interesting perspective on how much of modern culture has lost faith in the ability of God to perform healing miracles in people's lives. Part of the book talks about how in the days of the early church, up to several hundred years of Jesus' time on earth, people believed in and received supernatural healings. Certainly refreshing for some to learn that miracles did in fact happen after the lifetime of the apostles. Over time the church made a distinction/break in their beliefs, that the church's role is only to help people find salvation, and not physical healing. The modern view is: For help with the soul, come to church; for help with the body, go to doctors. Yeah, that seems about right. Certainly part of modern Christianity's lack of belief in modern miracles is a result of Martin Luther and John Calvin, who believed that the age of miracles was over. The author finds that many Christians who suffer with chronic illnesses leave the church every year as a result of disillusionment and lack of faith that God will help them. He certainly criticizes the lack of healing ministries in the church today; he claims a church without a healing ministry is like "a restaurant without a kitchen".

While the book does not delve a discussion into alternative medicine (other than a detailed discussion of essential oils), he criticizes much of modern medicine (pharmaceuticals), for one, the majority does not heal the person (as I certainly know all too well!), and two, because of the negative side effects that result and the negative effects on the body from overuse of the medications. (It is hard for me to believe that the pharmaceutical industry really wants people "cured", because if people were cured of disease, they would be out of business.) Most pharmaceuticals are designed for "disease management", not "healing". It is believed that 80% of chronic illnesses are psychosomatic, or have spiritual roots. Drugs cannot target the spiritual root. The book is certainly a slap in the face for people who believe that all forms of alternative medicine are occult or "the work of the devil", but pharmaceuticals are God's gift to the world.

God is the true healer... I guess the question now becomes how to find enough faith to be healed. Even Jesus had difficulty healing people in Galilee because of lack of people's faith.