This past week I received a letter from a lady who is in need of help for her daughter. Because I have a site and have been involved in natural healing and health research, I am asked for possible alternatives to traditional treatments. Her daughter has been given a year (give or take) to live by the doctors treating her. She is 21 years old.
Her letter really disturbed me and I’ll tell you why…
Here’s her letter with the names changed to keep their identities private.
Hi Steve,
When Melissa was younger, she was bleeding internally for no reason, the doctors couldn’t figure it out and it went on for almost a year. I read Cayenne pepper stops internal bleeding in an emergency so I gave her a quarter teaspoon in a cup of warm water every night. It stopped in a couple of weeks never to return. Doctors don’t always know what they are talking about… they guess. So I have no problem having a conversation with any of them if they are feeling superior.
I was raised Christian, believe in God and miracles. But I am of an alternative faith now. It is a more natural, loving religion, more about herbs and healing energy.
I do love God, but I have learned through the years, he can also be cruel. Floods, fires, and wiping out innocent children.
I guess Melissa just ended up being the fly in the spider web. Life and death is supposed to be natural, but it is the price we; all have to pay for sin so they say.
I can think of people who should die of brain cancer before my beautiful, sweet young daughter. I can’t think of anything she did so terrible. So, I will fight, because I don’t accept it. If God takes my child, I will have a very hard time believing in a merciful forgiving God who would allow children to die so horribly while he watches.
He created beautiful things it’s true, but he also created praying mantises that rip the heads off their prey while they suck out their insides, spiders are living vampires and the strong in nature eat the weak and babies. Who created that? And those are just a few examples. He doesn’t feel what we do. We are much more humane.
I appreciate the prayers, please don’t get me wrong, and maybe I have some learning experiences to go through, but honestly, I’m not happy with him right now. I’ve sinned more in my life time, he should take me first. But I guess life’s not fair….why!?
Sorry if I bombarded you. I am going to follow this natural cure and try to fix her.
Thank you for your time and input, I really appreciate it.
Joan
OK. Now let me give her and you the truth…
- Almost everyone in America claims to have been raised a Christian, believe in God and miracles. But the reality is, most people have been raised as secular “Christians,” not knowing God’s word or ever really understanding the desire God has for us to have a “relationship” with Him. There is NO “alternative faith,” only another choice of “unbelief.” Herbs and healing properties are gifts from God for us to use for our benefit, not intended to be worshiped.
- Without really knowing God, you can’t really love God. The only way to know God is through His Word (the Bible) and asking Him to have a relationship with you through His son, Jesus. (This is a “personal” decision each person must make.) She stated she has “learned through the years, he can also be cruel.” This would be true if God was really behind these “floods, fires, and wiping out innocent children,” but God is NOT behind the cruel, unfair and the unjust events that happen to us all in this world. Who is behind it then? His name is Satan. Jesus said, “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness.” Have you ever read the book of Job in the Bible? It says, “So Satan left the LORD’s presence, and he struck Job with a terrible case of boils from head to foot.” The devil is very real and very evil in all his ways. He is the source of ALL disease and sickness.
- “I guess Melissa just ended up being the fly in the spider web. Life and death is supposed to be natural, but it is the price we all have to pay for sin so they say.” NO… Melissa has been attacked by the devil. “Satan, the mighty prince of the power of the air. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.” We are in a fallen world to this day, but not without hope now that Jesus has provided a way to exchange the death sentence of being born into sin, to “the sacred and unfailing message of salvation that gives eternal life.” It’s NOT “they who say, “the price (or wages) of sin is death…” it is God that says it! And because “God so loved the world, He gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” “God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.”
- “If God takes my child, I will have a very hard time believing in a merciful forgiving God who would allow children to die so horribly while he watches.” God has already proven His love for us by sending His ONLY Son to die the most cruel and shameful death any human being could suffer. Telling God that you’ll only trust Him if the circumstances in life turn out the way you believe they should, proves that you don’t trust Him now. We will all physically die in these bodies someday. Babies die. Elderly die. God never intended for us to die. That happened when Adam and Eve listened to the destroyer (Satan) and believed the lie! “”Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden?” “You won’t die!” the serpent hissed.” But, it’s the eternal life that will be the most dramatic. We were created with the capacity to feel and love. We will always mourn and grieve the loss of someone we love. But, this life on planet earth is “temporal.”
- “I’ve sinned more in my life time, he should take me first. But I guess life’s not fair….why!?” Life is not fair because most people have decided to believe the lies of Satan rather than the truth of God! It’s not for us to know the things that only God knows, but we do have His Word. Everything we need can be found in the Bible! I’m totally serious about that! Not to mention the “supernatural” power available to those who believe. It’s WAY more than life insurance for eternity… it’s “assurance of life” in the midst of horrible circumstances and trials. This life is “temporal.” The apostle James said, “How do you know what will happen tomorrow? For your life is like the morning fog–it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.” In light of eternity, this life is VERY short, but if you place your complete trust and confidence in the “canceled or paid debt” for your sins, by receiving Jesus Christ into your heart, you have passed from death to life already!
This may be a shock to you, but Jesus said, “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness.” Does that include NOW? YES!
His heart breaks over the same hurts you feel. “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.” He feels our pain and hurts!
The good news is that God will put an end to Satan and his evil attacks against God’s creation. It’s all spelled out in His Word… especially in Revelation. The time is coming when God Himself and Jesus will take the earth back and rule a world without sin, sickness, pain, tears and without the devil FOREVER! Nothing God has spoken, has not come to pass!
