When Is One Really Healed?

A lot of times Jesus performed healing in the Gospels. He healed the blind, the lame, the deaf, the sick, and even brought back to life a young child and a dear friend. In most of those healing would advice the healed person not to tell what happened to anyone. This is because He does not want to be known as a healer in the physical sense. It was not the reason why He came. His mission was to bring everyone to salvation. His mission was to bring into healing every ones soul. His purpose was to bring everybody to repentance.

In the first place, He did not go about every place healing the sick and the needy. This should make us understand that He has a more important business. Even those He brought back to life, later would die. The healing sessions of Jesus were for a purpose. Whenever He has an opportunity to heal, He would take that opportunity to present God as having power and authority on everything. That truth should lead one to trust and belief in God. If God has control over one's physical condition, He must also have control on one's spiritual condition.

The important part in the healing of Jesus was whether those healed would follow his advices and/or would follow Him. There were those, who, after being healed, did not follow Him. Worse, they did not follow His advice. They were physically healed, but unfortunately, not spiritually. They had not realize the very reason of their physical healing. In one instance, after healing the ten lepers, one went back to give thanks. Jesus made an accounting of those who were healed compared to those who went back and gave thanks. In the process, recognizing the recognition of the leper who went back, Jesus granted Him the more important spiritual healing.

I know of two couples who went to a healing session of a healing priest. Both wives were suffering from terminal illness. Months after the healing, one of the husbands called me up and told me that his wife was now completely healed from her sickness. Her recent examination showed no more traces of the sickness. The couple was very very happy. Of course, I was happy too. The other husband also called me up and told me that his wife was also healed. I was happy too and asked him give the phone to him so I can talk to her. He said that she can not talk to me anymore because she already died! I could not believe what I heard. But he explained that before she died, she was able to make a confession and was happy she has reconciled with God! The husband said that it was the perfect healing he was talking about. She was not physically healed, but certainly, she was spiritually healed. And that is what real healing is about!

Not everyone who goes to a healing session is healed. Both patient and healer are aware of this truth. To announce and propagate successful healing to everyone is to give false hopes. Religious or faith healing is always about being healed of ones sins. The physical healing is just one of its signs. The absence of physical healing does not mean the absence also of spiritual healing. Most of the times, spiritual healing are not accompanied by physical healing. In any case, the best sign for true healing is when one is reconciled with God. Any other situation is merely temporal healing.