“If there is one thing I hear with growing clarity, it’s that God is calling each and every Christian to personally participate in the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.” Brennan Manning
I love that statement! God is not some impersonal force trying to get us to conform to His will. No He is “Our Father”; a loving parent who is working within our lives for our highest and best.
A “healed” person is one who finds his/her identity only in God, and no longer in a role (wife, mother, father, etc.), in a career or profession (doctor, lawyer, pastor), or in class (woman, white-collar worker), a “healed” “whole” person is no longer shaped or determined by fears of failure or by what others think. JUSTIFIED BY GOD AND GOD ALONE! This redeemed personality is free! Free from sins, mistakes, opinions; it is free from the rejections it has experienced. This person is free: free to love — even its own enemies; free to create — in spite of the fears and hate surrounding it. This personality (healed person) no longer attempts to relate to others (much less the Body of Christ) on the basis of expertise of any kind, for it no longer finds its identity in that expertise. A HEALED PERSON (PERSONALITY) FINDS HIS/HER IDENTITY AS A CHILD OF THE FATHER!
A “healed” person is free from fears, outward pressures, undue domination by others. Free from the very circumstances of life and secure in his or her inner person, a healed person is able to confront and to deal with these issues rather than being shaped by them. A HEALED PERSON HAS WILLED TO BE ONE WITH GOD.
A healed person has begun a journey of collaborating with its Creator. This person has realized that he or she can create nothing of himself, but rather being “one” with God is now free to discover what the Creator is doing in and through his or her life. Healing then is surrendering to the “One” who can “RE-CREATE” our lives according to His Divine will.
Thus, a “healed” man is indwelled by God the Holy Spirit who now empowers man to be an “artist” or a “co-creator” with HIM. THIS IS OUR DESTINY!
Christ in man, resurrecting the whole of man; his intellectual, his senses, his emotions, every area of his being to be responsive to the very life of God. Healing then is the result of our union and communion with the very Source of life and all of creativity. In this union we become whole persons. Love flows from the uncreated to the created and out to other created beings.
God’s love in us is the Divine Energy that overcomes the Fall every person and lifts us back up into the very life that we were created to live. To enter into this Union, Communion or “The Great Dance”, then, is to enter into the Presence of the Holy Spirit, the dynamic activity of the Love that is shared between the Father and the Son, this is Healing to all of creation.
