Grace is Sufficient

A major question of our time is "why doesn't God heal everybody?" It is a tough question. It would actually seem audacious to answer it on behalf of God.

This I know, not everyone that I have prayed for has been healed. I haven't been healed of all my own infirmities.

One answer to this issue keeps coming back to me. God's grace is all that is necessary. Grasping it is healing. More importantly, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is all that is necessary for now. There is more to come as God is in the process of complete and total restoration of that which was created.

Anything other than the cross and the resurrection is essentially icing on the cake in this life time.

These thoughts were once again stirred when I read of Paul's seeking relief from the "thorn in the flesh" that he carried. "Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for kmy power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:8-9 English standard version).

Personally, I want it all now. Faith though says, you get it all with faith. There is a completeness now, and a completeness to be realized later.