Desired By God
By Van Moody
What does it mean to be a healer? To
be a healer means to be a fixer. A healer
is a person who can cure a disease
or injury, or who mends or repairs
something. And that describes just
about all of us. Every single one of us
is broken and in need of mending, if not
physically, then emotionally, mentally,
or spiritually. We are each of us, in our
own way, diseased. The word diseased
sounds terrible, doesn’t it? When I hear
the word disease, I can quickly conjure
up awful images of damaged flesh or
broken bones. But at its core, disease
simply means “dis-ease,” or something
that causes distress or anguish.
Dis-ease can be anything from physical
illness to mental illness, grief at the
loss of a loved one or disappointment
in a failed relationship, difficulties at
work or financial struggles, or any of
a thousand other problems. Life can
sometimes feel like a long string of
unexpected challenges, and we’re left
in the wake, struggling to stay afloat.
We need a life jacket and a helping
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hand to recover from these bumps and
bruises that leave us feeling tender and
sometimes feeling scarred. We’ve all
been there. Michael Hyatt once said
we’re either in a crisis, just coming out
of a crisis, or about to go into a crisis.
Life doesn’t happen without problems—
it happens in the midst of those
problems. And when we’re walking with
the Lord, those problems should drive
us to our knees to ask Him for help.
The truth is, to live out the abundant
life God has promised, we need a fixer
and a healer. God is the one who can
rescue us, fix us at all levels, and heal
us from our dis-ease. Anything else is a
temporary Band-Aid.
“
God is the one who
can rescue us, fix us at all
levels, and heal us from our
dis-ease.”
With the story of Moses and the branch
comes the first mention of healing in