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Healing People Are Healing People
Brian Mashburn
April 22, 2007
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Healing People Are Healing People
A teaching of Jesus that has become a life fixture for me as I navigate my days goes like this: "Everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher." (Lk 6:40) Things started changing for me profoundly when I let this sink in.
Profound thing #1: I began looking for teachers that I wanted to be like, rather than teachers who were merely smart or admired. Why? Because according to Jesus, when I get what I'm supposed to get from my teachers, I'm not going to merely "know what they know"...I'm going to be like them.
Profound thing #2: I began the process of becoming what I wanted others to be, rather than just learning what I wanted others to know. Why? Because according to Jesus, when I deliver whatever it is I will deliver to anyone who considers themselves "my student", whether they remember what I said or not, they will end up like me.
Profound thing #3: I began healing. Why? Because everyone I wanted to be like seemed to be healed and healing (and, yes, I do mean both). Additionally, everyone I wanted to "teach" needed their own healing. So, by being around healing people, I started becoming like them. And by desiring the healing of my students, I myself had to heal and be healing.
Profound thing #4: People around me began healing. Why? I'm not sure. I had spent much of my early ministry trying to be a healing agent of others hearts. I was teaching them about it, explaining it, inviting it, helping others do the things that the books and Book told me would heal them. I seemed to have very little that I could point to and call "success".
But the moment I started to humbly face and embrace my own life, like my teachers had and were, I started healing. And it was at that same moment that the people I influenced started doing the same.
It's weird, I know. It's almost like the teachings of Jesus, when followed, bring life (John 10:10). Who would've thought?