Curious Christian

I sit here in absolute awe of God as I write this. How should I begin?

A guy I know, who I’ve been trying to help through some tough times, has been healed. Not in a little way. In a big way. I wont go into the circumstances, which are too heavy to share. I’ll just say he was facing a hand amputation amongst other things.

The doctors had originally scheduled the amputation for yesterday, Tuesday. When I last sat by his side in hospital last week, with another friend, listening to him and praying over him, his hand was dying. It was going gangrenous. Some of the fingers were already dead. I saw them dead. I was there when the doctors said they were going to have to take it off.

This afternoon I received a message from his mother. His hand turned from black to pink over Monday night. What? O my God! Awesome! I called her back. Blood flow has returned, he was holding things again and the doctors are now wanting the bed back by the end of the week. The doctors couldn’t explain it. One of them got angry because he couldn’t explain it. She said to me, “But we know what happened don’t we!”

I called the rest of the prayer chain tonight to tell them the good news and also called the other mate involved who is currently in Thailand. I am awed. We are awed. I have witnessed healing before but not like this. Not this magnitude. His fingers was dead but now they are alive. His whole arm was decaying but now it has regenerated.

There is still a lot of stuff to work though. He still needs healing in mind, body and spirit and alternative counseling still needs to be finalized because the broader situation is too big for me and he needs me as a friend more than a counselor at this time. But in speaking to his mum, well, she can see God has his eye on the situation. This has been a HUGE witness to them. They have seen God at work. They know God hasn’t finished with them yet. Not after this.

For me this has all been a huge learning experience – certainly a trial by fire in terms of the Christian couseling course I just started at Morling Collage. I am still processing it all.  But I do feel a lighter now. Can you hear my smile?

Note: This thread, College Reflections, is to be submitted for assessment as part of my coursework in The Foundations of Christian Counseling at Morling College at the end of Semester 1, 2007. If you would like to speak to me about issues I raise in this thread, but are concerned about privacy, please email me privately  instead of leaving a public comment.