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TUESDAY MAY 19


THE GREAT HEALER

READ:
Exodus 15:26
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I am the LORD,
who heals you.
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The doctors I know are smart, hard-working, and compassionate. They have relieved my suffering on many occasions, and I am grateful for their expertise in diagnosing illnesses, prescribing medication, setting broken bones, and stitching up wounds. But this does not mean that I place my faith in physicians rather than in God.

For reasons known only to God, He appointed humans to be His partners in the work of caring for creation (GEN. 2:15), and doctors are among them. Doctors study medical science and learn how God designed their body. They use this knowledge to help restore us to a healthy condition. But the only reason doctors can do anything to make us better is that God created us with the ability to heal. Surgeons would be useless if incisions didn't heal.

Scientists can learn how God created our bodies to function, and they devise therapies to help restore or cure us, but they are not healers; God is (EX. 15:20). Doctors simply cooperate with God's original intent and design.

So I am grateful for science and doctors, but my praise and thanksgiving go to God, who designed an orderly universe and who created us with minds that can discover how it works. I believe, therefore, that all healing is divine because no healing takes place apart from God. __Julie Ackerman Link

**Father God, You are the Great Physician, and I ask for healing, whether
mind, body, spirit, or in all of these. I believe You will give what is best. Thank
You for Your goodness, kindness, and love in all things. __________________________________________
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When you think of all that's good, give thanks to God.

**********************Today's Bible Reading __ Genesis 2:7-15******************
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living being.

8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden,
and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out
of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is
pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was
also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.

10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and
from there it parted and became four riverheads. 11 The name
of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land
of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 and the gold of that land is
good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 The name of
the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the
whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel;
It is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth
river is the Euphrates.

15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the
garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Genesis 2:7-15 gives us a glimpse into the
perfect living environment of Adam and eve before the fall. God
provided everything necessary for their sustenance and enjoyment__
food (v.9), water (v. 10), and other natural resources (vv. 10-12)__and
gave man the responsibility to manage these resources (v.15). God
had originally intended for humanity to live forever, but after the fall
Adam and Eve were prevented from eating from the Tree of Life so
that they would not live forever in their sinful condition (3:22-24).