What do we really want from God? We know the right answers. A good family, health, adequate finances, and of course, eternal life spent with God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
However, what do we really want? To be the special one in our family would be nice. Then, what about supernatural health? Oh, and to be rich, and to have the best mansion in heaven would be nice, the one right next to the throne.
Yeah, that would be nice, all right. Our lives would sparkle like glittering diamonds, and everything would be perfect.
Yet, when God hands us his blessing, do we reach out for it or throw his diamonds away?
Listen to this story of two men. The place is India, and a prayer service is in session. The destitute, the sick, and the maimed are waiting for a touch of God, for they are the poorest of the poor and have nothing else.
A broken-looking man cries out to a spirit-filled missions volunteer and his godly wife, “Pray for my eyes!”
They touch his face and feel the release of the Spirit in healing, and then the man throws God’s diamonds away. Instead of accepting God’s blessing, he holds out his hands hoping to receive a different sort of gift.
The blind man wants money, and when all he is offered is Jesus, he walks away with nothing at all.
The very next man has the same request. “Pray for my eyes!”
This time, when the hands of the volunteers release the power of the Spirit, the blind man begins to rejoice and shout, “I can see! I can see!”
What was the difference? One man threw away God’s diamonds of healing, because they weren’t what he’d come to receive. The other received his healing, because God’s diamonds were a gift he couldn’t refuse.
Read in Luke 4:18:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.”
We forget sometimes what the true gifts of God are. He didn’t come to give us a perfect life or make us rich. He came to heal the brokenhearted, free the captive, and give sight to the blind. If we have all those gifts, then we have a life that sparkles like diamonds.
If all we want is money, God knows. If all we want is him, he knows that, too.
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Originally Published on 1-25-15 in Healing