Re:Verse reading–2 Kings 4:8-37 (day four)
Why do bad things happen to good people? You’ve heard the question before. First, they want to know why it happened and then they want to know why God did not fix the situation…or heal their loved one…or why someone else received healing and they didn’t. The focus is on the temporal…not the eternal.
In Hebrews 11, the Bible’s Hall of Faith, the faith of the Shunammite woman is identified. (v. 35) So did she have more faith? If we read the next verses in Hebrews 11, we see others who had great faith and they were tortured, chained, imprisoned…they were stoned and sawn in two, and put to death with a sword. We cannot speak for God…our thoughts are not His thoughts, our ways are not His ways…but we can trust our Almighty, all-knowing, all-loving God. (Isaiah 55:8-9) The Shunammite woman received back her son, but the greatest gift she received was her justification by faith!
By faith we will be healed!
Phuong Le Callaway, PHD, CA