What I'm saying is this: Judgment becomes the will of God once circumstances change, and we sin and must be corrected. Judgment becomes His will so that we not be condemned with the world by eventually giving ourselves over to sin completely and abandoning God altogether.
Training, though, not judgment. Hebrews 12 uses the word that means to train as you would a child, where it says chastisement. Disciplining would be a good translation, that is, to instill a discipline in a person.
I've learned that I don't really need to wonder about these things, about whether or not this or that is intended to remain in m life as disciplining, or that it may be healed, or that it's neither, but it's going to run its course because God isn't interfering with the natural order of things.
I have a physical condition at the moment that's going to result in the loss of several teeth soon. My understanding from God, IF I do understand, is that this is the progression of a condition He initiated before I was born, that it would bring an amazing harvest in my life a few years ago, and that it would then play itself out as such things do.
When I was in crisis over it a few years ago, this was in conjunction with a number of other circumstances, and God was doing the heavy lifting in me. Now, it's a reminder, that He is sovereign over all, and has predestined me to glory in Christ. I don't have to be concerned over what is coming, that is the lesson from the past.
But something I've come to, I don't need to know. I trust God implicitly, whether I understand or not, and if I'm asking for healing for something He means to be with me for a time, I know He will be faithful to not heal me. And if it's something that may be removed by prayer, I know He's faithful to heal me.
This confidence in God was boltered by my sight, to be sure, as I endured many things which I thought would destroy me, but He has brought me through them. And I know He will continue to bring me through, and I don't have any struggle in prayer over whether I will be healed of this or that, I simply know God is able if that is His intent. If I ask, He will, unless He has a really good reason not to.
How often, how long shall we ask? As long and as often as it is a care in our lives. Casting all your cares upon Him, because
YOU are what
He cares about.
Much love!