Objection: God Sometimes Withholds Healing to Test Your Faith

This is one of a slew of objections that fails the “show me where Jesus did it” test.  (See The SAME Test.)

Jesus only did the will of God.  If God sometimes withholds healing to test your faith, you should find at least one passage where it says, “Jesus healed them all except for Billy Bob.  He let Billy Bob stay sick, because verily, instead of manifesting His compassion to Billy Bob, He wanted Billy Bob to be miserable for a while just to see if Billy Bob would stay in faith.”  You’ll find nothing like that in the Bible.

This objection also fails the “does it apply to salvation” test.  (See The SAVED Test.)  If God really acts this way, then we should find evidence that He saves SOME of those who call on the name of the Lord, but others He refuses to save from their sins for the time being – just to see if these sinners are really sincere and tenacious enough to keep believing for salvation even when God doesn’t save.

Given that salvation are healing are both part of the same package, it is ridiculous to think that God would withhold healing when healing is already offered on a 100% grace basis to EVERYONE just as the new birth is.  Healing, the new birth, the Holy Spirit baptism, and all other spiritual blessings have already been given (Ephesians 1:3).  It is not a question of whether God’s grace has provided them; they depend upon man’s faith to receive them (Romans 5:2).

God NEVER withholds healing from anyone just as He never withholds the new birth from anyone.  However, we can get in our own way in various ways and fail to receive what He offers.

God would be completely unjust to withhold healing from you for a single nanosecond when Jesus has already paid for you to have it.  How ridiculous that God would pay for you to have something and then withhold it from you.  It would be like a man buying a new luxury car and registering it in your name, then telling you, “Oh, but you can’t have it now.”  It just doesn’t make sense.  It would be like a credit card company telling you, “A rich benefactor already paid off your full balance, but we are going to keep charging you our horrifically high interest rates on that balance just to test you and see whether you believe it or not.”

If you really think that God withholds things from you, you need to let the Holy Spirit teach you a thing or two!  God sent the Holy Spirit to let you know about the things that have already been freely given to you by God (1 Corinthians 2:12)!  If God didn’t spare His own Son, how could you think that He wouldn’t freely give you everything else (Romans 8:32)?  The Bible teaches that God is not holding back anything from you.  It is healing objectors who teach that, not Scriptures.  Jesus already purchased your healing and it is already legally yours.  It is TOO LATE for God to decide to yank back that pre-paid blessing and tell you that you can’t have it.