Let’s explore option one—“adjusting” in order to stay loyal to the miracle-worker. The adjustment is… “Believe!” Believe the miracle-worker, even when His teachings clash with the Scriptures. Believe a miracle has happened, whether it has or not. Remember the world famous faith-healer who believed in his healing when all the evidence said otherwise.
That was the point where I started to believe “I received my healing.” No, I did not feel healed. No, I did not look healed….
People in the congregation began asking me, “Did the Lord really heal you?”
I said, “He sure did.”
They said, “Well, you don’t look healed. How do you feel?”
“Not any different.”
“Well, if you do not look any different, and you don’t feel healed, and we can see that you don’t look healed, what makes you think you are healed?”
I said, “I don’t think it; I know it.”
As a young person, he was already learning to adjust. He adjusted the meaning of miracle, despite the clear descriptions in the Bible. Then he adjusted the idea of evidence. Nothing visible had happened. Nothing had changed, not even inner feelings. Yet, with no evidence of any kind, he insisted that he knew. That was the only way he could be loyal to his ‘miracle-worker’ and his ‘miracle.’ Assuming that he is sincere, he also thinks of his blind faith as loyalty to God. He would rather deny plain facts than to ‘sin’ against God by expressing doubt. Belief is always good, right? Belief in the real Jesus, belief in the real miracles of the Bible, belief in the Scriptures, all of these are right.