7/28/2019 Pre-Approved for Healing
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Ever get those credit card applications in the mail that say
that
you're pre-approved for a new credit card that has a 20.9%
APR,
no grace period, and a $40 annual fee? All you have to do is
sign
your name and send back the application. You're guaranteed toget
the credit card, to say nothing of the right to have your
supper
interrupted for the next five years by telemarketers
pitching
supplemental hospital insurance, shopping services, travel
clubs,
and so on, all conveniently billable to your new credit
card.
If someone acted toward this offer the way Christians act
toward
their healing, he would:
-- Send back the application with a list of good references
who
can vouch that he is truly deserving of this pre-approved
credit
card. "Joe has lived a good moral life. If anyone is deserving
of this
credit card, surely he is."
-- Write a passionate letter pleading for the card. "PLEASE
giveme this card. If you do, I promise that I will rack up big
bills with
it. I will make only the minimum payments and help you build
your
next skyscraper downtown with all my interest charges."
-- Throw up his hands and say, "Well! If they really wanted me
to
have this credit card, they would just send it to me. I guess
they
really don't want me to have it."
-- Say, "No way do I want this credit card. Sinful Sam down
the
street got this same offer. I'm insulted to be offered exactly
the
same terms as Sinful Sam."
You can't do a thing to deserve your healing. Jesus made
youworthy to receive it. Jesus already paid a price so that you
could
be healed. You are pre-approved for healing.
I didn't receive my pre-approved credit card the last time I
got
one of those mailings. You know why? I didn't send in the
application! (I get those offers every couple of weeks anyway.
I've
noticed that they don't send those things to people who really
need
credit cards -- they send them to people who already have
credit
cards.) That wasn't the credit card company's fault. The
only
reason I didn't get it was because I did not act on the pre-
approved offer.
God already made provision for your healing when Jesus bled
and
died. You had not done a thing to please God. Your salvation
was
reserved for you while you were still in sin. Healing is
available on
a gift basis only. It is not a trophy for a handful of
especially
consecrated Christians.
The problem is not God, but modern philosophy and theology,
as
reflected in Proverbs 32:2-3: "For you never know what God
will
do. Sometimes he will say Yes, sometimes he will say No,
sometimes he will say Wait, and sometimes he just won't
answer.
Surely God helps those who help themselves." These thoughts
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