Jesus Still Heals by Christian Chua

On 23rd July 07, I went for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as I had been suffering from a jabbing pain in my left arm for over 6 months.

The neurosurgeon confirmed that I had cervical injuries to my C3 and C4 of my Spine. This is more commonly known as Slip disc on the neck.

He looked at my MRI report, with his head bowed down, he said "I am really sorry for the bad news, it looked quite bad."

He said that he will put me under 6 weeks of Physiotherapy afterwhich I should be prepared for a surgery through the neck and replace 2 pairs of discs on my spine with titanium disc. There is a 1:100 chance that I will lose my voice.

All this while, I was neither worried nor anxious. It was only when the doctor said "sorry for the bad news" in a manner that sounded like the end of the world, that I began to invite fear in, that's when I became somewhat depressed.

I have always been an advocate that 'Jesus Still Heals Today', I have preached this and I believed it. When an illness strikes you this hard, your faith is dealt with a serious blow.

The right thing to do is to first rebuild your faith. I quickly dusted off my favourite book "How to heal the sick" by Charles and Frances Hunter and began to immerse myself in faith. I recalled all the times when Jesus revealed Himself to me through all the miracles that I have seen or experienced in my Life. "Jesus still heals and I am going to continue to believe."

The next day, I attended the usual Friday night prayer meeting at CTK and went up for praying over. By Sunday when I had my first physiotherapy, I was on my fourth day of medication.

The pain had amazingly subsided to close to nothing. The Physiotherapist said, "your MRI looks bad but your symptoms don't look like it's bad."

He said, whatever you have been doing in the last few days, is probably what you have been doing right. Continue with it.

I have since stop my medication and the pain is negligible. I know what I have done right.

I believed that Jesus still heals, and did the right thing to believe in Him when the going was tough.

Praise the Lord. Jesus still heals.