"I have to accept this as my new normal. Managing this disease is just my life now."
How it sounds in your head: The doctors keep saying 'you'll learn to live with it' and 'we'll manage the symptoms.' My parents talk about 'our new routine' and all the things we have to adjust. It feels like giving up to just accept this, but everyone says that's being realistic. Maybe hoping for healing is just childish.
"For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds, says the Lord."
-- Jeremiah 30:17Medical system programming that creates permanence around temporary conditions - redefines hope as denial.
Medical professionals he's taught to trust use language of permanence and management. His entire family structure has reorganized around the illness, making it feel immovable.
This man was sick for THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS - longer than most people's entire lives. Everyone accepted it as his permanent condition. Jesus asked one question, spoke one command - 'Rise, take up your bed and walk' - and IMMEDIATELY the man was made well and walked. Thirty-eight years gone in ONE MOMENT.
I REFUSE the lie that this is my new normal! IT IS WRITTEN: God will RESTORE health to me and HEAL me! Management is not my destiny - WHOLENESS is! Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever - He healed EVERYONE who came to Him and He hasn't changed. The BARAK blessing isn't conditional on my behavior - it protected murderers and liars, and I'm in a BETTER covenant bought with Jesus' blood! IT IS WRITTEN: By His stripes I was healed - past tense, FINISHED! I receive what's already mine!
Your Father isn't asking you to settle into sickness like it's a new house - He's the Father who runs toward you with the robe of wholeness while you're still in the pigpen of symptoms. He's not teaching you to 'manage' - He's clothing you in 'COMPLETELY HEALED' before you even finish your speech.