When our faith is met with God's power, healing happens. Faith has to be present somewhere, in someone, for healing to happen. Without faith it is impossible to please God. That being true, I might also add, without faith it is impossible to create access to God. Praise God for the gift of faith!
We have the glorious experience of interfacing with the Creator many times in life. While God has chosen to give us experiences of His grace sovereignly, there are also times when He withholds the experience of His Presence until beckoned by the simple faith of one of His own. In the case of the friends who lowered the man from the ceiling to be healed by Jesus, it was their faith which provoked the Son of God to forgive the ailing man from his sins. When He saw their faith, He moved to meet it. (See Mark 2:3-5.)
Sometimes a person leaves the ministry of the Holy Spirit unhealed and, though it would seem, untouched. Yet this is God's wisdom – the choice not to heal. For, in the words of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, "healing is not reasonable in the case of those who would afterwards be injured by unbelief." (St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Fourth Theological Oration, 10. B#7, p.183)
Only God knows what our faith levels will be in the future. If we are sore intent - perhaps even dying - to to live within the trajectory of discipleship, he heals. Yet, if he knows that we might, after the room being swept clean, open it up again to the same critters for which we needed healing in the first place, it is an act of Love NOT to heal - or even to consider what we think we need best.
Would He bestow a blessing? Sure. A special grace/anointing to make it 'round the next bend? Well of course. Perhaps even gifts of ministry wherewith to serve others? It happens all the time. But would He bestow healing to that which He knows will be fractured or undone by one action or another?
In cases such as this, love demands He NOT heal.
God lives as Master over Death itself. Nothing is impossible for God. Yet, there are things He chooses not to accomplish in our lives – and that for good reason, reasons for which we simply need to trust. And while His “inaction” may lie behind disappointment, frustration, anger, pain, and even bitterness - it too, in itself, is an act of healing – an act of preventative healing, if you will, motivated by His knowledge of your future, faltering faith. In this case, God's greatest healing for you would be, and perhaps is, not to heal.
Why? Because He loves you.
