Theology of Healing

Victory happens when people fight from grit- not comfort.

It’s entirely possible (and common) to be addicted to pain and those that are, often don’t commit to better habits or things that challenge their faith - both with their spiritual and physical struggles.

Comfort-seeking fighters want so badly to feel better that they tend to be hyper-protective around the areas they hurt or fear the most.

This is so understandable. They don’t have the capacity for more pain, so they avoid the hard things needed that bring change and healing, eventually losing faith in the goodness of The One who promised to heal them.

The problem here is layered and rooted deep as a weed in the soil of the broken hearted, so I want to shed light on it with tender honesty.

First of all, the corporate church has veered away from the early church’s expectation of trials and tribulation into the expectation of blessings and prosperity. We’re all guilty of it because the constant modernization of society - namely technology and medicine - has conditioned us for comfort and convenience.

Simplified: The comforts of life have warped our understanding of what Jesus meant when He promised us an abundant life. Therefore, much of what the modern church preaches, keeps us from being able to handle hard times with mighty faith and joyful endurance.

Additionally, a lot of corrupted theology has woven itself into our personal and collective spiritual formation. Corrupted is defined as being altered/changed or infectedWhen something is corrupted, it isn’t all bad, but the bad allowed in it will spoil the whole thing - as we see in Galations 5:9, a little leaven leavens the whole lump. So the modern church has been spoiled by doctrine that has been altered, infected or both.

While I won’t go into those things specifically, I will say that these very subtle but incredibly common corruptions have weakened people’s faith to the point at which they mentally and physically break - and often fall away.

I want to be clear, as I shed light on what’s been corrupted that I am in no way, straying from the Gospel. Quite the opposite, my aim here is for us to collectively return more fully to it.

It’s for freedom, not easy living, that Christ set us free.

So with the right theology, we as the body can thrive supernaturally, no matter the battle we are fighting.

“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He will lift you up”

~ James 4:10

“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not loose heart”

~ Galatians 6:9

Navae Lukas