“Some men came, bringing to
him a paralytic…they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and…lowered the
mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When
Jesus saw…he said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven’” Mark
2:3, 5.
When my daughter was entrenched in her drug use, I created my own
adversity. I was so heartbroken and
grief stricken I responded in a sinful way.
I began secretly mounting debt in an effort to run away from my
pain. In essence, I was an adversity
runaway. Secret spending turned to cover
up and before long I was paralyzed in my sin.
I prayed that God would heal my daughter and restore her life but to no
avail. I lowered my mat of paralyzed
hopes and dashed dreams before Jesus but He was more interested in my spiritual
condition, just as the paralyzed man.
The man needed physical healing but Jesus gave him spiritual healing
first.
Our spiritual condition will always outweigh our earthly
petitions. God is certainly
compassionate to our needs and desires.
However, in some instances there is something sick in our
spiritual life that can be healed through our earthly challenges. We go to
great lengths to lower our mats before Jesus, but when we have unconfessed
sins that need to be revealed and healed that becomes the focus of God. Once I began praying about my own
transgressions and my fellowship with God, He began healing my spiritual
condition and gave peace to my heart. It
was another two years before my daughter was rescued and restored but I was no
longer living a paralyzed life. He had
forgiven my sins and I came to the altar with pure prayers.
God will heal whatever is broken within our spirits which many
times answers the prayers of the deepest desires of our hearts.
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