Healing Update~Reasons to Praise God

Well, it has been 13 days since I cut my finger.  I'm starting to get used to typing without the pinky.  (Strange how we adapt.)  The finger looks to be healing fine, but it is still tender on one side.  I'm not exactly sure why that is, but I suspect because it was rather deep, I must have hit a nerve or something.  I hope once the wound itself is done healing, that the pain will also go away.  Once in a while it just stings or throbs and aches, so perhaps things are just healing on the inside.

I'm glad that God the great physician has it in control.  Watching and feeling the healing process is another reminder that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.  Times like this make me thankful for my health and make me appreciate my other 9 healthy fingers.  I have been staying off of the keyboard and organ these past couple weeks, and I'm looking forward to this little finger being 100% healed so I can make some music again.

9 days                                                                            13 days

All this attention to a little "owee" makes me think about Jesus.  One of the aspects of His public ministry was healing people.  He taught people, proclaimed the gospel, and also healed.  It must have been something to witness the healing that went on during the time of Jesus and the apostles. 

I just finished reading through the book of Acts, and I was struck again by the amazing power that even the disciples and apostles had during that time.  But thinking about the miraculous acts also made me think about the many multitudes of people who witnessed these things and still didn't believe He was the Son of God. 

"Jesus said to him, 'Because you have seen Me, have you believed?  Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.'" (John 20:29)NASB

What a gift faith is.  We wouldn't even believe if He didn't first give us the gift of faith.  We have an awesome God.  It's all from Him...I have lots of reasons to be praising God!  I am so Blessed.

  

"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast." (Eph. 2:8-9)NASB