Dear friend
It is wonderful to contemplate the opportunity of being healed from our illnesses by faith. Especially on those occasions when Jesus Christ was personally on the earth, but many other times too, we can read of the blind beholding, the deaf discerning, the lame leaping, the barren bearing. All on account of faith.
As if this feature of faith wasn't alone sufficiently awesome, we may also ponder how faith is the key component of other miraculous manifestations. One of these is explained quite beautifully in the life of the Prophet Enos.
Enos was one day pondering the prospect of eternal life. Maybe we've all done that at some time. He realised his life was not sufficiently right with God. His soul "hungered" for a remission of his sins. He remembered the teachings of his father about Jesus Christ, and he began to pray, all day as it happens. The story continues in the Book of Mormon, Enos 1:5-8.
5 And there came a voice unto me, saying: Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed.
6 And I, Enos, knew that God could not lie; wherefore, my guilt was swept away.
7 And I said: Lord, how is it done?
8 And he said unto me: Because of thy faith in Christ, whom thou hast never before heard nor seen. And many years pass away before he shall manifest himself in the flesh; wherefore, go to, thy faith hath made thee whole.
"Lord, how is it done?" Besides the healing of our sicknesses, the key to obtaining forgiveness of our sins is again faith, specifically faith in Christ. Faith can heal our bodies. Faith can also heal our souls.
Forgiveness through faith sits among the most fundamental teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our faith can make us whole. How great, how glorious, how perfect.
I pray that we make use of this cleansing power of restored wholeness every day. And if we need to fix something in our lives that is more pressing, that we do it soon. Christ is waiting with loving open arms, He always is.
Samuel.
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