Burn on leg healed
About finding God, I shared my first experience of an instantaneous healing of a painful burn on my finger through my own prayer in grade school. That greatly impressed me that this invisible God, this presence and power is real, and I can access it.
Well, later on when I was in junior high school I went for a ride on the back of my brother’s 250cc Honda, which I loved to do. When I went to get off the motorcycle, I slid off on the side with the hot exhaust pipes. On these old motorcycles the exhaust pipes were chrome and up near the seat and had no heat covers on them, at least his didn’t.
You can imagine that when my inner leg hit that exhaust pipe it instantly seared my skin. It was very painful. However just as quickly I lifted my thought to God (that is the best way I can explain it) — I just with confidence thought something to the effect “no — I am not hurt — God is taking care of me and would not let me be hurt.” Actually it wasn’t even that clearly articulated. I remember just turning away from the matter picture and going to God with a clear knowing that all was well and I could just go on with my day paying no attention to this accident. I knew and felt to some degree that this loving presence and power called God was right there with me taking care of me.
With this childlike confidence in God, the pain went away very quickly. The experience is still to this day vivid in my mind. I still had a serious burn scar on the inside of my leg that took awhile (many months and maybe longer) to heal up and go away. But I never experienced the pain associated with a serious burn like that except in those first moments when it occurred.
God is with us and we all can learn to turn to Him/Her step by step and then we prove to ourselves His/Her presence. You can start with small things, where there is not as much fear to deal with. And step by step we increase our faith and can deal with more serious issues.
One thing I attribute to this healing is the childlike trust that I had in God — that God loved me and was ever-present, always loving Her children. Even now I strive to emulate, to reach within myself and find that childlike thought, that childlike trust when I pray.
This reminds me what Jesus once said: “Jesus called over a child, whom he stood in the middle of the room, and said, “I’m telling you, once and for all, that unless you return to square one and start over like children, you’re not even going to get a look at the kingdom, let alone get in. Whoever becomes simple and elemental again, like this child, will rank high in God’s kingdom.” (Matt 18:2-4 The Message Bible)
