For He Healed Them All
Choosing Life - Choosing To Be Well Again
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(Introduction)
What does one do when faced with many of life’s sudden and often disruptive forces? What does one do after being broadsided by a bad medical report or receiving a diagnosis that contains all the elements of a life-threatening disease? One can retreat to the dungeons of fear, denial, anger, and self-pity, or one can choose to live. What follows on these pages is a discussion of the latter: choosing to live and to be well again!
(Chapter 1)
“I’m sorry,” says the doctor, “but your test results came back positive. You have cancer. The full extent of the malignancy has not been determined, and further analysis will assist in exploring your options. In the meantime, here are a number of booklets on the subject that will help you understand the disease better.”
After a few words of encouragement, he leaves the room, and you find yourself sitting there in complete silence. A few cubicles down, you overhear him telling a woman about her wonderful test results and commenting on the beauty of her little granddaughter. He says, “She looks just like you.” At this point you feel that it is neck-wringing time! With every fiber of your being, you feel like screaming out, “Man, get back in here! I need you, and I need your help. This is no time to be talking about beautiful babies!”
At this time you realize you are alone, all alone. After pulling yourself together and driving home, perhaps sometime far into the night, you will cry. Pity becomes your sole companion. Why me? becomes the great question that runs through your mind a thousand times, but it gives no answer.
At this time, what is commonly known as the “Why me?” syndrome sets in: I have been a good person, and I’ve taken care of my family, gone to church, and paid my tithes. So I ask over and over, “Why me, Lord? Why me?” This is the great “Why me?” question that has troubled men and women, great and small, through the ages.
Behavioral scientists and psychologists usually define this as the stage that precedes denial, which develops into anger, blame, and, finally, acceptance of the condition.
It is not my desire to get bogged down in a religious argument about why God permits certain events to occur in our lives. We know that God is sovereign in all His ways; if I or any other man could give definite reasons for all actions taken by God, then God would cease being God. Here I feel compelled to address a New Age rationalization in response to “Why me?”—“Why not you?” This line of thinking often concludes by asking whether or not you would want it to happen to your friend, your mother, your husband, or anyone else. Why not you? Such thinking takes the position that all human experiences are democratic in nature, thus bringing about a common sharing of these experiences that excludes no one. We are all one with nature or with a so-called higher power. Therefore, it becomes undemocratic (or even unfair) to disclaim any fate that might befall us, and sets us apart from our peers in terms of the consequences of that fate.
Sadly, I have known a number of people (Christians) who have been seduced by this line of thinking. They actually said, “Why not me?” when trying to find a reason for their illnesses.
The major consideration here is the fact that courage may and well should be exhibited in how we deal with an illness, but sickness, in and of itself, contains no virtue, valor, honor, or humility. A false sense of comfort may be found in the “Why not me?” question, but it is a comfort void of spiritual logic.
What if a gunman robbed you and, with full measure of his evil intent, shoved you down a nearby escalator? Would you jump up, in all your pain, and ask in response to this dastardly act, “Well, why not me?” I dare to think not! The reality here is that the robber and sickness operate out of the same bag; their objective is to steal, kill, and destroy. And it is Satan who controls this bag of evil. His eternal desire is to keep us confused, continuously making concessions over a victory that is already ours.
As born-again believers, we have a God-given right to question any disease or sickness that make its way into our lives—not only do we question them, we can pray for their removal. Exodus 23:25 (KJV) reads, “And I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.”
Acceptance of Satan’s plan of sickness is not where a blood-bought believer wants to begin his or her fight back to divine health. Such thinking should be rejected. In these perilous times of weakening and waning faith, our attention should be drawn to Acts 10:38, which tells us that Jesus—being anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power—went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil. Jesus is not in the business of putting sickness or disease on anyone. He came that we might have life and have it more abundantly now and forevermore.
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FOR HE HEALED THEM ALL. THIS IS A GREAT WORK!1 Astounding!
For anyone who is going through illness or injury, or knows someone who is. This book is for you
Open it, embrace it.... your answers are inside. Hurry!.
It is uplifting, encouraging and thought provoking.
It brings to the reader, in language that is powerful and at the same time, easily understood, a message of faith, a promise of hope, the ease of mind that comes from believing, and a strength in spirit that says “Go Forth!”
The writer expresses and examine the “Why me? Syndrome”, which so often confronts us when given a life threatening medical diagnosis.
Won’t take long to read – but you’ll be reading it for a long time.
About the Author
George R. Williams Sr. was born and raised in the environs of Memphis, Tennessee, and received his early schooling in the education systems there.
At the age of twenty, he moved to Detroit, Michigan with his family, where he still resides as of today. He became a student at Michigan State University in 1956 and remained as such until being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1958. Upon returning home two years later, he re-entered Michigan State University, and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science in 1963
In October 1965, George was wedded to Gladys Wilks of Gallatan, Tennessee, they were blessed with three children: George Jr., Deborah and Stephanie.
In the work force, George has served as an educator and corrections officer. He also has deep interest in the development of young entrepreneurs, and has spent a good part of the last twenty-five years advancing this effort. He presently serves as a mentor and advisor at three internet based service companies.
His literary interest first budded while in the military, when he was asked by some of his fellow soldiers to help with the writing of their “sweetheart” letters to their girlfriends back home.
During the early nineteen-sixties, as a student at Michigan State University, George participated in the writing of an on campus play titled “The Man Called Nigger”, which was reviewed favorably in Ebony Magazine as part of a story it was doing about Ernest Green, who was a member of the group of black students that integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Mr. Green is a graduate of MSU. George was a member of Pride Greeting Card Company of Detroit for a period during the nineteen-seventies. The company created, manufactured, and distributed a full line of Black greeting cards at the local and national level. He is presently compiling poems, aphorisms and posters written by him for future publication.
In 1956, George came under the pastoral ship of the late Reverend Roger W. Dixon, when he joined King David Missionary Baptist Church located in Detroit Michigan. The Pastor envisioned great things for George and shortly thereafter he became the first chairman of the churches trustee board. He still serves faithfully under the leadership of the Reverend Sterling H. Brewer.