I believe you’re my Healer…
“You hold my every moment, you calm my raging seas, you walk with me through fire, and heal all my disease…” - Healer by Kari Jobe
The lyrics above are from a song that has really been on my heart recently; every time I hear it there is something within me that seems to just erupt in a
volcano of emotion…
Aside from the well written music and lyrics, there is another reason that this song keeps making me cry like a baby, and that is the continual reminder of the incredible intimacy we are able to share with the Almighty God, a God who heals. This never fails to astound me. After being a Christian for the best part of my life, I still feel awe struck whenever I ponder the truth that is this; the creator of the Universe cares about little old me! And what’s more, he actually reaches down into my life and moulds me into shape, sometimes drastically and sometimes without me even noticing…
The thing that has always grasped my
souls attention is God’s healing nature… As a man, Jesus’ was a healer, that is what he spent a great deal of his ministry doing. The Gospels are full to bursting with the amount of people Jesus healed; lepers, blind people, lame people… The list goes on, he even raised the dead! But anyone who has even just looked into Christianity will be aware that Spiritual healings still take place in our lives; personally I have had several experiences where myself or others around me have been miraculously healed by the Holy Spirit. And although these physical healings are indeed miraculous and praise worthy and so unbelievably astounding, I do fear that because these physical healings are often more visible and noticeable than other types of healing, we sometimes form a hierarchy of healing, which is against the very nature of God…
Obviously I am in no way saying that physical healing is unimportant; I have seen people’s lives transformed purely by a physically healing encounter with the Spirit. However, I am saying that as Christians we should be careful to not hype up one type of healing which would result in the hierarchy I mentioned earlier. If God’s healing power removes a persons inability to forgive, or if he heals a person from low self esteem, we should be equally spiritually excited as we would be if his healing power removed a persons diabetes or cancer, because although from a worldly perspective those two sets of examples are worlds apart in importance and priority, in God’s kingdom both things are equally painful and restricting, and as a loving Father he feels every pain we feel and therefore cares about every ‘tiny’ issue we have, be it emotional, spiritual or physical.
I feel that my spiritual and emotional reaction to ‘Healer’ by Kari Jobe is indeed born out of my thankfulness that God is a relational, loving Father. But also it is born out of my personal experience of God’s amazing healing power in my life that was not physically visible, and it was not a split second transformation, but a slow journey with my Healer; a journey of battling negativity, insecurity and doubt which has resulted in my personal knowledge of God as a faithful healer, never forceful, and only ever working in the best of my interest, because I am his precious daughter.
“I believe you’re my healer.”
