So this past Tuesday, I dislocated my left kneecap! Not so fun….
My knee looks the size of a baseball, and is TEN-DER! But I can still walk on it and do ministry for the most part!
Fun Fact: I recently learned about cellular regeneration. Did you know that the human body can almost completely renew itself in the space of just 90 days?!
How crazy is that!
Oh – and I also got this lovely tattoo right before we left South Africa that says Walk by Faith.
Then, this past Thursday I was reading Luke 5. (Our team has been reading a chapter in Luke each morning with our ministry host as a morning devotional.)
What really stuck out to me was verse 12:
While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” (Luke 5:12)
Now, I don’t have anything nearly as drastic as leprosy but the Lord convicted me hard right here!
I couldn’t help but think about this guy’s actions. There was no hesitation in him whatsoever. He didn’t think ‘Well, maybe Jesus can heal me’ or ‘He might decide to heal me.’
The leper just dropped right down in front of Jesus knowing He could and would heal him. He just had to have faith. And he did – he was healed!
13 And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.”And immediately the leprosy left him.
How does this all – My tattoo, a knee injury & a devotional – tie into my blog? Well, this is how the Lord convicted me.
The Lord started bringing to my mind how incredible He is that He can renew the human body in the space of a few months.
He reminded me of my tattoo – to ‘Walk by faith’, which I hadn’t been doing because I was to concerned about how my knee injury would affect my ministry in Zimbabwe and my team.
I wasn’t having simple childlike faith that God would come through for me. I was to scared to give this problem to Him.
I believe God allowed this injury to happen, so I would have to increase my dependency and trust in Him and so I would slow down and turn to the True Healer.
Does this mean I’m miraculously healed? Nope. Not yet.
But I do have faith that He will heal me!
