{"id":6486,"date":"2023-10-02T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2023-09-26T11:39:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:39:03","slug":"your-faith-has-made-you-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6486","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your faith has made you well.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday we looked at the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6484\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blind Bartimaeus<\/a>, which ends this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And the blind man said to him, \u201cRabbi, let me recover my sight.\u201d And Jesus said to him, \u201cGo your way; your faith has made you well.\u201d And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way. (Mark 10.51 \u2013 52, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Your faith has made you well.&#8221; It&#8217;s the same thing Jesus said to the woman who touched his garment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And he said to her, \u201cDaughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.\u201d (Mark 5.34, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think Jesus is being gracious. After all, it&#8217;s his power that made them well, isn&#8217;t it? Or is it both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I walk into a dark room and flip the switch. All of a sudden, there&#8217;s light! Why? and How? Was it my switch-flipping that made the light come on? Yes, but only if there&#8217;s a giant electricity generator nearby, transmission lines bringing the electricity to my neighborhood, lines from the main line to my house, internal house wiring to a working light bulb, and a switch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> THEN, when I, in faith that all that power is there, flip the switch, we have light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Power but nobody flipping the switch = no light.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Switch flipping when there&#8217;s no power = no light.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Power + switch flipping = light.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The power is there. Are we flipping the switch? Or, to change the metaphor, if we believed that the prayer gun was loaded, what would we aim it at? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you&#8230; (1 Samuel 12.23, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (Matthew 7.7, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we looked at the story of blind Bartimaeus, which ends this way: And the blind man said to him, \u201cRabbi, let me recover my sight.\u201d And Jesus said to him, \u201cGo your way; your faith has made you well.\u201d And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way. 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