healing

             God is not blind that he cannot see our suffering , when the children of Israel were in bondage God instructed Moses to tell them He had seen their suffering and had heard them crying out .
             I don't think that God heard them because their cry was loud
             ( although it may have been ) but rather because it came from their innermost beings and was a sincere plea to Him recognising their own inability to do anything about their plight .
             Whilst healing is popular to talk about ,The Bible also tells us that His hand can injure us .Hard to compute that with a loving Father until we understand that the context for this in the book of Job (ch 5 vs. 17-18 ) is that of discipline . I am certainly not suggesting that all our suffering is a matter of discipline ,but it is a biblical reality that sometimes it is .
             Sometimes when I discipline my own children their pride is hurt , sometimes it's their emotions and sometimes it's their backsides .
             I don't discipline my children out of some sort of sick feeling of
             badness , rather so as to teach them right from wrong , good from bad and the fact that there is consequences in life for bad decisions .
             Isaiah ch 19 vs. 22 suggests to me that God responds positively to those who recognise His correction and in that turning back to Him there is a context for healing , maybe that was specific for the Israelites , or maybe it is revealing to us one dimension of Gods character and intention .
             Isaiah ch 57 vs. 16-19 shows that despite our own proud and selfish nature God still desires to heal mankind and restore us to the people he intended us to be .
             In the book of Jeremiah ch 30 God explains to His beloved that in the time of trouble God will destroy Israel's enemies ,however He will not let Israel go unpunished because of their great guilt and many sins . God says he will heal their wounds and restore health , he says there will be songs of thanksgiving , the soun...

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