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Your Question:
Is it selfish to want to be healed when others have it worse?
Answer:
As a pastor, I've seen many people struggle with the question of whether it's selfish to want to be healed when others have it worse. I believe that it's not necessarily selfish to desire healing, but rather a natural human response to suffering. The Bible teaches us to pray for healing and to trust in God's goodness and sovereignty. However, I also believe that our desire for healing should be tempered with a sense of humility and trust in God's will. We must recognize that God's ways are not always our ways, and that He may use our suffering for our own good, even if we don't understand it at the time. As the psalmist says, "It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes" (Psalm 119:71). This doesn't mean that we should seek to suffer or that we should be masochistic, but rather that we should trust in God's goodness and sovereignty, even in the midst of suffering. Ultimately, I believe that our desire for healing should be rooted in a desire to glorify God, not just to alleviate our own suffering. When we pray for healing, we should pray with a sense of compassion and empathy for others who are suffering, and we should be willing to trust in God's will, whether that means healing or not. As Jesus said, "You have not, because you do not ask" (James 4:2), but we should also remember that God's ways are not always our ways, and that He may use our suffering for our own good.
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