I believe in total healing. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. I have for years. I’ve practically shouted it from the hilltops. Yet I’ve come to a point in my own journey of physical healing where I realize how much doubt I’ve actually been carrying around. I look around me and see how much too many of us do on a daily basis.
I do more than average as far as nutrition, natural, alternative health. I apply a good amount to my own life. Yet, in the little corners tucked away, there is a knowledge within me that I could be doing more. I’ve had my share of reasons I don’t. But I’m over it.
I relate to all my friends, clients, and loved ones and their reasons they can’t or won’t go deeper into their commitments towards health, nutrition, alternative health care. I’ve walked most of them myself at one point or another. Money, incovenience, social pressures, marital strife, personal commitment. My journey in to health and healing is far enough advanced that I tend to average out ahead of the game – even with my compromises of three steps forward one step back – but I’m not sure how long I can keep going that way as I see more recently people in my life embattled in complacency of taking the “middle of the road” approach. Each day that passes I am more convicted that we go about our lives in the world accepting of our profoundly sick society. I see first hand that we are too complacent to live in a compromised state of health – willing to cut our losses and live with side effects. When did it become okay to think, “well it could be worse?” or “This is as good as it gets.” Why don’t we ask, better yet, why don’t we DO whatever it takes, what it takes to be better, to find HEALING?
I DO believe in total healing – and deep inside of me I know the commitment level that will take on my part. On some level, its a burden. The work it’s going to take has seemed undaunting before now. However, if I have to step it up a level to prove what I already know to be true, then I must – because people around me are sick, dying, tired, exhausted, or living in chronic pain. Needlessly. I know this. No doubt in my mind. God has been moving me towards physical healing this year – and just today – I finally see how small I’ve made my God to be. I live with an “incurable,” “irreversible,” illness. I was born with it. It’s not enough for me to simply believe He can cure me if He wants. I have to accept responsiblity to do my part – no matter the inconvenience or commitment level I must make – financially, emotionally, socially – to ready my body for that healing. Its time to lay aside all excuses.
Friends, our nation is profoundly sick. We rank #1 in emergency health care. We rank #73 in HEALTH and WELLness. We are a sick and dying nation because of LIFESTYLE diseases. Its time we each evaluate what in our lives has so much power over us that it has taken control of our life and dimished our health. What can be more important that living the life God designed us to have?
My God is so big! He can heal me. I believe He will. I see Him doing so each day. It’s past time for me to lay aside my disbelief, excuses, and complacency.
