f God desires our well-being, why doesn’t he always grant prayers for healing? “There’s no doubt about your diagnosis,” the doctor told me. I squirmed in my chair as I heard the numbers: according to the calculus of medical predications, my young children would most likely lose their dad in their childhood. It’s an incurable, lethal cancer. But as a Christian, I wondered - should “incurable” really be part of my vocabulary? What about God’s power and prayer? “Is anything too hard for the LORD?” (Gen. 18:14) When God told ninety-year-old Sarah that she would conceive, she laughed. At times I have been tempted to do the same. Yet the witness of scripture is resolute: if it’s a matter of God’s power, nothing is “too hard” for the Almighty.
But answering that question leaves many more unanswered. Nothing is too hard for the Lord, but the Psalmist still cries out in accusation: “In the course of my life he broke my strength; he cut short my days” (Ps. 102:23). The Lord is almighty, but that doesn’t give us the problem-solving God that we want.
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