If you are dealing with a physical struggle or infirmity, I encourage you to surrender yourself afresh unto God and ask Him to do with you whichever would give Him most honor and glory—whether that be complete healing and restoration or the grace and joy to endure the difficulty well.

But all of us have bitter waters in our lives spiritually. The waters of our soul have been polluted, contaminated, and made bitter through sin. It is undrinkable and unusable to the world around us.

What is the solution to the bitter waters? A tree. It’s called a cross.

In an amazing foreshadow in the Old Testament to the power of the cross, when you allow God to plant the cross of Christ in the midst of your bitter waters, they don’t just become clean or even pure … they become sweet.

What our world needs most is not a bunch of Christians who live like the world, full of bitter water, under a facade called Christianity. The world needs Christians whose lives have been made pure, clean, and sweet by the power of the cross and able to offer the world something more than talk … something they actually possess and experience.

As Christians, our lives should demonstrate the power of our Great Healer, Jehovah Rapha.

Even in physical infirmity, torture, or difficulty, our lives should reflect that our focus and trust is in our God. Our churches should showcase the truth that if God could tear down the dividing wall of hostility between the Jews and Gentiles in the early church (Ephesians 2:11-22), He can still heal any division in His body, the Church, today. Our personal lives should demonstrate His healing power over the work of the flesh and the subtleties of sin. Rather than hide them from view, we should confess, ask forgiveness, and live in the light as He is in the light (1 John 1:7). In short, we should live as authentic Christians.

Let us freshly embrace Jesus as Jehovah Rapha, our God who heals.

Article by Nathan Johnson Extracted from https://deeperchristian.com/206-2/