MEDICINAL / MEDICAL HEALING

Medicinal healing can be obtained by using plants, herbs and many other substances God created for us to use.  Because of the accumulated human learning we have acquired over the millennia that God’s grace has tarried, we also have much wisdom in the healing arts that have been passed down to us.  Practitioners of Medical Healing today are doctors, dentists, and many other healing professions.

There is a lot of evidence of Medicinal Healing in the Bible (2 Chronicles 28:15, Jeremiah 8:22, 1 Timothy 4:3,5:23) as well as Medical Healing (Ezekiel 30:21, Colossians 4:14).  Interestingly, the nations will eventually be healed by the fruit and leaves from a tree, the Tree of Life (Ezekiel 47:12, Revelation 22:2).

Medicinal/Medical Healing should not be confused with Divine Healing.  They are totally different.

    (a) Mostly slow, rarely fast

Most treatments, both medicinally and medically, promote slow healing.  There are a few exceptions.  A shot of pain killer can quickly mask pain.  Ice water on a burn can almost immediately soothe the pain.  But in both these cases actual healing takes a longer time.

    (b) May or may not last

This type of healing can promote lasting healing, but can also simply give temporary healing.

    (c) Fairly verifiable

Medicinal Healing is fairly verifiable when Natural Healing has not worked.  But there are other factors that could also be at play, including Psychological Healing.  Medical Healing can often be measured when accurate charts are kept.  But again it is not an exact science and other factors could be at play at the same time.

    (d) Let’s give glory to the God; usually glory is given to man

Again, we must give glory to God for creating the plants and other natural materials necessary to develop medicines.  He also deserves the glory for allowing the human race to be around long enough to, through trial and error, develop what is today medical knowledge that can help many people.  Unfortunately the glory usually goes to the medicine or the medical practitioner.

Medicinal/Medical Healing generally happens over and over through the lifetime of the individual for various problems that can reoccur if not treated.  Biblical Divine Healing is a onetime event dealing with a specific disease. God can and does use Medicinal/Medical Healing to heal people, particularly when righteous Christians are praying that the Lord will give the medical practitioner wisdom to know how to treat a given problem.  But it is not Biblical Divine Healing as was demonstrated by the Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostles.