Healing is about surrender.
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Jesus asked the paralytic at the pool: “Do you want to be well?” (Jn 5:1-18)
Simple question to which most of us answer YES.
Yet we often misunderstand...
We want to be well while eating poorly.
To be strong without effort.
To be changed without changing.
To watch toxic media.
To listen to sinful music.
To eat what tastes good.
Do what feels good.
Let our imaginations become corrupted.
Grow sedentary.
Remain ungrateful…
And we shake our fist at God and wonder why we are sick.
I wrote a book about natural healing with one basic message:
The greatest potential for healing comes when we surrender our behaviors to God’s design.
We break ourselves under the weight of a lifetime of unrestricted corn syrup, pornified media, toxic chemicals, and unsanctified relationships, and are shocked that we are sick. Eventually, we are forced to turn to pharma to rescue us.
How ironic that this industry (which now dominates our “health” care) uses the dissected bodies of children to make medicine. It is the anti-Gospel. An open mockery of God and His design.
My disease isn’t all my fault. But it partially is. If I would have surrendered my behaviors to the Lord decades ago, many things would be different. My healing only began after I turned away from pharma as savior, turned to Christ, and took responsibility: “Do you want to be well?”
He wasn’t offering a magic pill; He was asking for complete SURRENDER.
Healing began when I accepted the inevitability of death, the consequences of sin and my own behaviors, and the responsibility for treating my body with the dignity with which it was created.
My approach has never been about buying the latest and greatest fad. It is simply radical surrender. I exist because the life of Christ lives within me…
And I will always experience healing (in His way and time) when I glorify Him through my choices:
Wholesome food.
Movement.
Sanctify leisure.
Discipline appetites.
Reduce toxic exposure.
Virtue.
Silence.
Prayer.
Reject the secular path of health. That pool is not the way of Christ.
"Rise, take up your pallet... and walk...Sin no more."