Faith and Health newsletter

February 2010
Miracle

 

When speaking of healthcare, what is a miracle? If we see someone who has a terminal disease suddenly get up and walk away disease free, we call that a miracle. However, if we see someone with a paper cut heal, we usually think nothing of it. But isn’t that just as much of a miracle?
 
In Mark 2:11, Jesus told a paralytic man “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” We see this as an obvious miracle.   We view it this way because we do not expect paralytics to be able to stand up and walk. We also see this as a miracle because of the time frame in which this happened.
 
Take for instance a cancer sufferer. If one morning, we hear that this person went from death’s doorstep to total health, we would exclaim it a miracle. However, if that same person spent months in treatment and eventually beat their disease, we might not call it a miracle, but instead sound health care.
 
All healing comes from God. All healing should be viewed as a miracle. We should not limit our view of a miracle by the type of disease, the timeframe, or the circumstances by which the healing took place.
 
I am blessed to see miracles all the time. However, I do not only consider those cases where an unexpected healing happened to be a miracle. I also consider the normal expected healings to be a miracle.
 
When I was still an intern in chiropractic school, my very first patient was a young girl with asthma. I was nervous and unsure of myself, but I did what I was trained to do, and delivered a specific adjustment. The next day, she came into the clinic and told me that her asthma had completely disappeared. In fact, she never had another episode with it again. I thought I had witnessed a miracle.
 
After years in practice, I have been blessed to see many asthmatics completely recover while under my care. Most were not a one day response like my first patient, but they felt that a miracle had happened.  Were these any less of a miracle, because some of them took quite a bit longer to respond?
 
Life itself is a miracle. Why do we commonly distinguish between what we call a miracle and not based upon our human timetable, or understanding of severity? If all healing is truly a miracle, then there should be no difference between the healing of a cut and the healing of a long term debilitating disease. The only difference would be our faith in the ability for this miracle to work in a particular case.
 
It is for this reason that I do not like to see people just accept their health problems. I believe that the words, “I have learned to live with it”, are some of the worst words anyone can speak. I also believe the concept of controlling a health problem with drugs for the rest of someone’s life is selling themselves short. If we believe the best we can do is to “manage” a problem, then we are convinced we can not heal. Since “all things are possible with God”, why lower our expectations when it comes to the miracle of healing?
 
All healing is a miracle from God. Expect a Miracle!
 

 

About Faith and Health:

I am Dr. Bob Braile and I am a Christian, Husband, Father, and Chiropractor (in that order), who has been greatly blessed by our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.  I, and many of my colleagues who also feel their lives have been blessed by Christ, have decided to not hide our beliefs behind some man-made unwritten rule that says that you can not express your beliefs in a professional healthcare setting.

I also believe that real science should not be in conflict with our faith. The fact that a process is scientific does not mean that it is not from God, as it is He who set the universe up to work the way it does. However, in man’s own arrogance, we sometimes use pseudo-science to think that we know better than the creator how to care for our bodies.

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