Joni Eareckson Tada has had a significant profile as a Christian and a quadriplegic for decades.
Speaking at John MacArthur’s Strange Fire conference Eareckson Tada spoke about her experience of God’s healing power in the present age.
Tim Challies provides his notes. They’re worth reading in their entirety.
Here’s an excerpt.
…Joni wondered who this God was who would deny her what she was sure she needed. A bitter spirit began to take hold of her. If she couldn’t be healed, she wanted to be left alone in her despair.
When she did turn to the Bible, she had a special interest in healing, but soon saw that physical healing was not Jesus’ main interest; he was far more concerned with spiritual health. She realized then that her interest in Jesus had been more for what he might do to heal her body than for how she might serve him. That is when she began searching for a deeper healing and once she understood that healing, the Lord taught her that her disability was a means through which God was causing her to grow in holiness…Read the rest of the post at Challies.com
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It seems so inadequate to describe her comments as Spiritually mature … but that’s what they are of course. I received correspondence from a spouse of someone deeply impacted by Altzheimers (both devout Christians) well-advanced in years, no likelihood of “HEALING” there. Both are sustained by God’s “exceedingly great and precious promises.”
The curious thing about this post is MacArthur’s terming the conference the “strange fire” conference. Now I’m stirring a bit. I realise he’s identifying eccentric sometimes heretical teachings emanating from pentecostal circles which are akin to the levitical phenomenon. Is that the subjective-genitive use of the term, then?
I should go to bed in preparation for the Lord’s Day.