We know that someone can be physically healed without being spiritually whole but can a person be spiritually whole without being physically or emotionally healed? I’m sure the answer is yes, and it is in our best interest to prioritize spiritual wholeness over physical healing.
Healing from {temporal afflictions} happens in the Lord’s time but in the mean time we can choose to become spiritually whole by exercising faith.
I like the distinction that while the wise virgins didn’t share their oil, they did share their light.
Wholeness is born of faith in and conversion to Jesus Christ.
The Master Healer will heal all our afflictions—physical and emotional—in His time. But in the waiting to be healed, can one be whole?
What might it mean to be spiritually whole?
We are whole in Jesus Christ when we exercise our agency to follow Him in faith, submit our hearts to Him so He can change them, keep His commandments, and enter a covenant relationship with Him, meekly enduring and learning from the challenges of this earthly estate until we return to His presence and are healed in every way. I can be whole while I wait for healing if I am wholehearted in my relationship with Him.
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Through our faith in Jesus Christ, we can seek to be spiritually whole while we wait and hope for physical and emotional healing.
It takes focus on eternity to be more interested in spiritual wholeness than physical or emotional wholeness.
To be whole means to be complete and full. Much like the five wise virgins who had their lamps full with oil when the bridegroom came, we can be whole in Jesus Christ as we fill our lamps with the nourishing oil of conversion to Him. In that way, we are prepared for the symbolic wedding supper, His Second Coming.
In the parable all ten of the virgins were in the right location, awaiting the bridegroom. Every one of them came with a lamp.
But when He came, at the unexpected midnight hour, the five foolish did not have sufficient oil for their lamps. They were not described as wicked but rather as foolish. The foolish failed to adequately prepare to keep their lamps burning with the oil of conversion.
Being in the right place at the right time is only part of what is needed.
We are commanded to share His light. So keep your lamp full of the oil of conversion to Jesus Christ and be prepared to keep your lamp trimmed and burning bright. Then let that light shine. When we share our light, we bring the relief of Jesus Christ to others, our conversion to Him is deepened, and we can be whole even while we wait for healing. And as we let our light shine brightly, we can be joyful even while we wait.
The light from our conversation needs consistent tending—even with oil in the lamp the light can go out if the wick is not maintained in a proper position to keep burning based on the current conditions.
Sisters and brothers, the answer is yes, we can be spiritually whole, even while we wait for physical and emotional healing. Wholeness does not necessarily mean physical and emotional restoration in this life. Wholeness is born of faith in and conversion to Jesus Christ and in letting the light of that conversion shine.
Mary was the first witness of the resurrected Savior. And she was the first to witness to others of what she had seen.
I humbly add my testimony to Mary’s. He is risen. Jesus Christ lives. Ultimately all will be healed, physically and emotionally, in Him. And in the waiting for that healing, faith in the Master Healer will make us spiritually whole.
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