The Citizen, 1988-05-18, Page 30PAGE 28. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1988.
Minister's Study
God made
us whole
BY REV. BONNIE LAMBLE
WALTON-BLUEVALE
PASTORAL CHARGE
In Mark chapter 1 we can read
the account of Jesus’ first miracle,
an exorcism. In Jesus’ time illness
was thought to be caused by evil
spirits. In orderfor a sick person to
be healed, the evil spirt had to be
cast out of the person.
If the story had happened today,
it probably would be recorded in a
different manner. We would not
say that the man had an evil spirit
but rather he had a disease of some
type, perhaps epilepsy. And so the
captioninour newspaper might
say “Faithhealer cures epileptic. ’'
How would you feel if you read such
a headline in “The Citizen?’’
While such a headline might not
get much attention in something
like the “National Enquirer”, it
certainly would in our local papers.
My guess is that a great many of us
would be very suspicious. We
would wonder what on earth the
paperwas coming to. We would
feel uncomfortable and maybe
angry and wish that the paper
would stick to straight news and
leave the religious fanaticism
alone.
But the fact remains that Jesus
healed this man and others in
miraculous ways. And there is
something for us to hear in all that.
We need to re member that we
are created in God’s image to be
whole persons. We are physical,
emotional, social and spiritual
beings who are intended to be
whole persons. We are not boxes
with four compartments labelled
physical, emotional, social and
spiritual. We are one being in
which those things combine to
makeupwhoweare. Whenanyone
part of our makeup is not well, the
other parts are affected, too. For
example, when we are physically
ill, our feelings may be dragged
down, our ability to relate to others
affected and our faith may be
tested. Babies whose physical
needs for food, diaper changes and
sleep are met but whose emotional
needsfor love are not met, have
been known to die.
Wholistic medicine is beginning
tolookmoreatthewhole person
and not just physical symptoms. It
may be that a person's physical
illness is rooted in emotional or
spiritual disease. And that may be
where so-called faith healers have
their power. If a person has an
illness that is basically rooted in a
spiritual problem and if the faith
healer somehow addresses that
spiritual problem so that it is
healed, the physical problem may
be healed as well.
Butletus return to our story.
Jesus did heal this particular man
and the healing came because
Jesus had some kind of authority
over his life. Those who were
watching, noticed his authority
a nd commented on it. This story
tells us that was Jesus intent to
bring wholeness to this man and
that by his authority, that whole
ness came about.
There is good news for us in this
story, for although we may not be
possessed in the way that man was,
we do have evil spirits that have a
hold over our lives. You know what
they are - spirits that begin to take
over our lives and fracture us inside
leaving us broken. They are many
and varied -- spirits of business
that keep us frantic and always on
the move, spirits of bitterness
about painful past situations,
spirits of selfishness which keep us
from loving others. Their name is
legion. But it is Jesus’ intent to
bring wholeness into our lives. And
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