Trees In The Park

For the Word of God to not fail, every man must die and then face the judgment. Since Enoch and Elijah were translated, or taken away bodily from this world into Heaven, I believe that they must return again to face death before the end of time. That’s why I believe that they are going to be the two witnesses of the Book of Revelation. Other’s believe differently, and that’s okay with me. It won’t matter to me who they are because I’ll be in Heaven when they come back anyway.

Another reason that God may choose not to heal is that he knows our heart and our propensity to forget him. There are times when I am convinced that God allows afflictions to remain in our lives as a constant reminder that we need him. How many times have I seen people cry out to God for mercy and when mercy comes, they get back into their normal routine and forget him? That doesn’t bring glory to God, but the blessing are consumed upon their on lusts. But for the mercy and longsuffering of our Lord, those same people would face the wrath of God for willful disobedience and perhaps even greater afflictions would come upon them. It’s an absolutely loving and merciful God that doesn’t treat men the way that they treat him.

If God was as lackadaisical toward us as we sometimes are toward him, where would we be? If God were to forget to care for us, or to provide our needs as we are to forget to pray, or to worship him, I shudder to think of what would happen to us.

The third qualifier to see miracles in our midst is that we must live in obedience to God’s commandments. This isn’t speaking of just the 10 Commandments, but every law of God found in the Word of God. Of course we cannot obey the law. We will always fall short of that goal. So the law must be fulfilled for us through the Blood of Jesus Christ. Therefore, if we live in obedience to the call of God upon our lives and to the conviction power of the Holy Ghost, striving to allow the Word and the Spirit to cleanse us from all sin, and fully trusting only in the Blood of Jesus for our righteousness, then we can say that we are living in obedience.

That kind of obedience requires much more than just a quick glance or a surface knowledge of Jesus, but a deep, heartfelt commitment to serving Him as our Lord and Master.

All of these things must be in proper order: Believing in the power of God to heal; trusting in God’s mercy and grace; willing to give God all of the glory regardless of whether he heals or not; living in obedience to his Word; and then allowing God’ s will to be done.

With that in mind, let us look at where Jesus heals a blind man.

Mark 8:23-25, "And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly."

This whole passage is an analogy of what happens in the heart of a man when Jesus saves his soul and he is born again by the Holy Spirit.