Health, and Health Care in the Wilderness

Another difficult and perplexing phenomena in the wilderness, is experiencing strange health problems never experienced before, and the seeming lack of normal medical care or finances you need to treat them. This may, or may not affect you, but if you are going through this I want to encourage you today that God is with you, and does care very much about what's happening to you right now. Your sin has not caused this, God just wants to help you to overcome your fears concerning experiencing certain health problems. He will also help you to come into a deeper place of faith in order to trust Him for healing, or to trust Him even if you don't get healed for a while. God's focus here is on faith and on overcoming the fears that have kept us bound. Plus building faith for your own healings will also provide a deeper foundation of faith for when you are empowered to pray go and pray for others to be healed. 

Many of us are used to having regular health and dental care, and the idea of not having it can bring out some of our worst fears. "What if my looks are harmed, what if I lose a tooth, what if I'm disabled and can't work, what if my children get sick, or what if we die?" You may get a big case of the "What if's", more than once. We don't realize how much doubt exists in our hearts until we can't fix our own problems and we are then forced to trust God for real to give us the help that we need. It may seem like you get more serious health problems in the wilderness, and maybe you do, but also this may be the first time you are facing these kinds of problems without health care, so they may just seem bigger and more scary than usual.

If you carry a lot of security and self worth in your looks and beauty, then it is possible you may face a problem that will seemingly decrease that beauty. The fear of man, and our need for man's constant approval, is a big idol in most of our lives. If this happens to you, just try to remember that God is not trying to be mean to you; He is just allowing your self-worth and beauty to come from Him alone, rather than in how beautiful or nice looking we are. Like Job, God can either prevent or allow whatever situations to occur in our lives that force us to face our fears, and to topple our most precious idols. This is all about coming into, and developing true faith in Him. He wants you to see that you are complete in Him.

He will also lead you into a place where you must trust Him to heal your body in a very real way. He, and those He sends, will be your only avenue of help in the wilderness. If you are really in the wilderness, then you probably already know what I'm talking about. The wilderness is as real as it gets, because there are no more safety nets like their used to be. Whatever you are facing physically right now, God wants to heal you, and for you to overcome your fears or pride involved in that particular situation. He may heal you right away, or He may just let you carry the problem for a while until His purposes are accomplished. Like Naaman the leper, some pride and fear may need to go before you can just believe and be healed.

The Children of Israel in the first wilderness faced these kinds of fears and doubts, especially concerning the bad things that might happen to them or their children out in the desert (the "What if" syndrome again). They lacked true faith in God to trust Him even though they had seen God do great things in the past to help and protect them. Doubt may knock on your door when you do not see an immediate answer to your problem that you can implement yourself. Also, demons may also try to lie to you in this time of deep trial, and accuse God of being a deadbeat Dad. Listen to this: