“I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you.”
The title for today’s blog indicates that we will have good days and bad days. This is just the nature of life. I would like to tell you that if you believe in Jesus all of your days will merry, and that you will never have to be worried or upset about anything. The only problem is that we live in the world with everyone else, and we have the same human experiences that they have. There is an incident recorded in Luke 10:38-43 about a visit that Jesus made to home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. Martha was busy about housework, and probably getting a meal together, while Mary simply sat at Jesus’ feet, worshipping Him and listening to Him. Martha was having a bad day because they had an important guest and she wanted everything to be just right for Him. She became upset with Mary for not helping her out more. She was having one of “them days, when everything’s wrong and nothing is right.” Jesus told her that she was distracted by too many things, and that Mary had chosen the good part, i.e., to spend time with Him. Martha was having a bad day because she did not put her focus on Jesus, but on something less important. I think that this should tell us something about our own bad days. We get distracted by the day’s news. We are worried about what is going on in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, you name it. Believe me, there is plenty out there to distract us and take our focus off of Jesus. Being human, we are just going to have those days, but when we are having them, we need to stop and ask ourselves why nothing seems to be going right? We will find the answer in our own hearts. Remember this: Bad days will come, but they do not have to stay. For example, the context of today’s scripture is about the days when King Hezekiah was “sick unto death.” Hezekiah was not just having a bad day; he was having a bad life. This is when the Lord spoke to the prophet Isaiah and told him to give words of comfort to Hezekiah: “Turn again and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.” He was told that he and Israel would be delivered from Assyria, and that he would get well and live fifteen more years. Look at the message that was delivered to the king. First, he was told “I have heard your prayer.” God was not deaf to Hezekiah’s needs, just as He is not deaf to our needs. God/Jesus knows what is going on our lives at any particular time. He knows whether we are having good days or bad days. We should pray and know that He hears us when we pray. We should also know that He answers our prayers. He will see us through the good and the bad!!! Second. God told Hezekiah: “I have seen your tears.” We sometimes think that we are God-forsaken, and that He is not aware of what we are going through. Well, if He saw Hezekiah’s tears, He will see ours as well. Whatever your problem is on any given day, God is aware of it and He sees your tears as well. God is not hard-hearted about what is going on in our lives. What He wants is to minister to our hearts and minds. In order for Him to minister to our hearts and minds, we have to focus our attention on Him. Third, He told Hezekiah: “Surely, I will heal you.” Notice the word “surely.” We can be assured that God will act in our best interests, whatever we are going through. He might want to use a bad day to teach us something, but in the process He will heal us if we put our focus on Him. Life is filled with good days and bad days, but our eternal God is present in all of them and acting on our behalf. Believe it! Bro. Joe
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