Have you ever come across a moment in your life where you just want to stop yourself and smack your forehead, breathe in deeply, and silently pray for the ignorance of the person you just met? Mine just happened today.
My deafness was subtly labeled as a generational sin by a woman whom I have never met before in the parking lot of a grocery store. To make it even better, she asked if she could pray for me to be healed. After she took her hands off my ears, she snapped in my face and asked if I had been miraculously healed. A look of disappointment was plastered all over her face when I told her no. So what did she do? She prayed a second time, with her hand on the back of my neck. After snapping again, she asked if I had been healed. Again, I said no, I still cannot hear. Then she started her own monologue about Jesus' love and how our relationship with Him is so important and that to be healed, you must have tremendous faith. It was pretty startling to hear a stranger make a judgement against me about how my faith wasn't enough to heal me. So I said a little prayer for her and I dare not repeat what I said on here.
When the whole thing was over and I was walking away, I suddenly had a verse come up to mind that would most definitely put that woman in her place. I had recently posted it on Facebook and it was too late to turn around and go back to tell the woman. That verse comes from Psalm 139, which says: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well." God made each of us exactly the way He wants us to be, and being the perfectionist He is, He does not make mistakes.
"For You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb...My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth." Psalms 139:13, 15
"The LORD said to him, 'Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Is it not I, the LORD?'" Exodus 4:11
Christians, please don't make any assumptions that some people need healing. People are made according to a much higher plan that we will never be able to see nor comprehend. Accept God's will and allow them to show the mighty works He has planned for those who love Him.
