“But She’s Okay Now!”
by John Fischer

Instant healing, that’s what my friend said I performed. Of course he was
just kidding, but that’s what it seemed like to him.

We were talking on the phone and I realized I hadn’t told him that a
co-worker of mine, someone he knew casually, had been undergoing a 9-month
bout with
cancer. Ironically, however, I had also just heard days before that after
numerous chemo treatments, she had been proclaimed clear of cancer. (All
visible
signs of the cancer that had infiltrated several areas of her body,
including her bone marrow, were completely gone.) I hadn’t really figured
out how to
talk about this to someone who wasn’t aware of her ordeal at all, so it came
out rather oddly.

Something like: “I don’t think I ever told you that Sheryl has been fighting
cancer for some time now.”

“Oh, no. I’m so sorry to hear that.”

I could sense his emotions starting to wrap around this reality, so as to
not have him to go too far with unnecessary sympathies, I quickly
interjected,
But she’s okay now!” There was a pause.

“Wow, that was the quickest healing I’ve ever heard of,” he said laughing.
“John,” he went on, “you just healed someone right in front of me!”

We enjoyed a good laugh over this, but later I got to thinking, there’s
something to learn here. In a way, you could say my friend got the God’s eye
view
of Sheryl’s suffering.

Sheryl’s view was quite different. She got the day to day assault on her
body with anti-cancer treatment and all it’s resulting consequences, and she
got
the day to day uncertainty as to whether any of this was going to do any
good. Now this, too, was God’s view, because through the Holy Spirit, He
goes
through every step of our pain with us. The Holy Spirit even prays for us in
groans we cannot even utter (Romans 8:26)! But God also has this other view:
“But she’s okay now!” He knew that all along.

From God’s point of view our struggles are over that fast. He knows what He’
s doing. He knows why things happen, even if we never do. He has His
purposes,
and that’s what faith is all about: believing this when we’re stuck in the
long haul. All along the way God knows the outcome.

And I suppose there is a way you could say this was true for all of us who
put our trust in God for whatever we are going through, and whatever the
outcome,
including even death itself. God sees it completed. His healing is instant.
His comment is always going to be the same.

“But she’s okay now!”

John Fischer is the Senior Writer for Purpose Driven Life Daily Devotionals.
He resides in Southern California with his wife, Marti and son, Chandler.
They
also have two adult children, Christopher and Anne. John is a published
author and popular speaker.



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