All Were Healed

 Mark 6: 53-56

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⁵³ When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and anchored there. ⁵⁴ As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus. ⁵⁵ They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. ⁵⁶ And wherever he went—into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

Would that Jesus were still walking among us, through the halls of our hospitals, treatment centers and hospices curing all!  Our prayer lists are full of those needing healing; we pray, and and occasionally our prayers are answered in a positive way, but for the most part, they are not, at least from our point of view.  Were all these prayers a waste of time? Or did we learn the important lesson that was part of Jesus's Gethsemane prayer: "your will be done, not mine."?  Did we benefit by our daily prayers for healing and grow closer to the God whose ways are not our ways, but whose love for all is everlasting?  Did we learn that even though we at first don't like it, his ways are always the best?  Let us not stop praying for healing, let our trust grow stronger, let our wills come to match and accept HIS will.

Bro. Rene