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From: C009GARY@UTARLVM1 (Gary Samek)
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Subject: RE: JMP - Why isn't everyone healed?
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Date: 9 Feb 90 14:46:03 GMT
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In-Reply-To:  Message of Fri, 9 Feb 90 04:53:00 EST from <COLELA@SNYPLAVA>

On Fri, 9 Feb 90 04:53:00 EST l. anne cole said:
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>Bernice,
>I only meant that sometimes sickness is a part of our cross. ( Jesus
>says many times - take up your cross and follow me. ) God
>allows it to continue because that is part of the plan.  Some plans
>include healing, some plans include sickness (sort of as part of
>our job down here).  The blind man Jesus healed was blind in
>anticipation of Jesus' eventual healing.  If someone came a few
>years earlier and he was healed, it would have blown the demo for
>Jesus.  If Job never had been sick, he wouldn't have come to personally
>know God.  Hope this helps.
>Anne

I have always considered healing to be a part of God's plan in reconciling the
world back to Him.  If I can be a much more effective example for God by being
sick and I felt that God ordained it, then I would not expect to be healed.
  Who leaves the more lasting impression on your mind, a man like my grand-
father who had leukemia, lung cancer, and 3 heart attack in the span of 10
years and still prayed and submitted himself joyfully to Jesus, or someone
like myself whose biggest problems have been a result of guilt and a lack of
discipline?  I think that the witness that my grandfather lived spoke in very
memorable and lasting ways.

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