Who Do You Trust More, God or Doctors?

How God Renewed My Mind about Health

I’m recently reminded about the power our testimony holds. When most Christians think of a testimony, they think only of a salvation testimony. But sharing a testimony of God’s work in your life is just as powerful. It encourages others to allow God to do a similar work in them, or instills hope that it can be done.

An Unrealistic Lifestyle

I won’t go into my years of health struggles much but over the years, my family has paid thousands of dollars for me to see multiple doctors. We were either searching for answers regarding my health or striving to help me function daily. After several years, I was diagnosed with Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), which can be a very debilitating condition.

A few years ago, I told God I didn’t want to keep giving so much money to doctors. It was unending; each doctor, used different methods but a similar process over and over. There were always good results, but my health would always revert back to my original state. Though, I am thankful for the knowledge gained and test results that I continue to use to maintain my health. But I began to expect to live my life to a standard of well-being that required constant care from a doctor in order to feel my best. After a time, I realized it was an unrealistic lifestyle. Many changes in my life occurred during this time, including one that we all know too well—living through a pandemic, a time that changed all of us and God used to mold me.

Taking Action

I sought to learn whatever God wanted me to learn through that time, and I began listening for His guidance and immersing myself in His Word daily. As I continued spending a lot of time in God’s Word, I also sought the Lord to remove any influences in my life that were not His will. Really, I became aware of how easily we can open the door to Satan’s influence in our homes and knowing I didn’t want to welcome or harbor any type of influence of Satan, I knew I needed to do something about it. I don’t want Satan to have any part in my life or my home. I knew I had to respond in obedience to any of God’s guidance to reach this goal. He seemed to be asking me if I was ready to trust Him, give up things, and take action.

Letting Go

He began to bring things to mind. Without a full understanding of why, and trusting His fuller knowledge, I began to obey and eliminate things from my life. Much of it was related to health groups I followed on social media, such as detox groups for parasites, heavy metals, and groups that focused on subjects such as vaccine injuries and holistic and alternative health care. God showed me that the importance of those things in my mind was too great.

I left many groups, stopped selling a detox product, unsubscribed from emails, and focused on God’s Word. His guidance continued until I began to see that He was changing my perspective about many of my beliefs regarding my health and my dependence on doctors and natural health methods that I regarded as vital. My focus began shifting towards Him and His focus. The Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians 2:9, “But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” He wanted more for me, but I had to be willing to listen.

What Else God?

I remember a point when I had eliminated many things, but I knew there was something else. I used a specific health practice for years that I often questioned and never had any solid assurance that it was ok to use except that I knew doctors that professed to be Christians that used it. So I asked Him about that specifically. He gave me guidance and I was ready to listen, really, I was willing to obey Him, even if it meant giving up something I depended on in my daily living. My attitude allowed me to, again, have my perspective changed to be more in line with His and it did involve giving up that practice that I had questioned for so long. I wanted to be on the same page with Him and humble and obedient to Him, but it involved giving up things.

Who Do You Trust?

He showed me that I was placing all my trust in doctors and some of their methods, to the point that it was taking the place of my trust in Him. This seems cliché, but when God is working on you personally and you come out with a changed perspective, it’s not cliché. I don’t discourage seeing doctors or claim that all of those things God led me away from are wrong, but for me, and very probably for most of us at times, a severe misplaced trust had developed that God helped me overcome. But I first had to listen and obey His every guidance. He showed me that some of the people I was following did not have goals that were Christ-like, Christ-honoring, or anything that a Christian should emulate. He knew I needed to separate myself from that in order to be able to recognize it.

While God renewed my mind, I stopped seeing doctors and just focused on using the knowledge I’d gained over the years (knowledge only made possible because of God) to maintain my health. And guess what? I didn’t die! I didn’t believe that’s what would happen to me, but I did believe I was dependent on doctors to a degree that I realized wasn’t true.

I want to encourage you to not let even seemingly good things be roadblocks to a closer relationship with God. We read in 1 Corinthians 2:12, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” When we remove things from our lives as He guides us to, He changes our perspective and makes it all so clear. Could those things be preventing us from seeing truth? If we do not see truth, then what are we seeing and believing? Proverbs 19:27 says, “Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.” I believe God wants us to have a full, joyful life. A life free of the cares we hold onto. A life rich in His blessings, if we will follow His guidance. But God’s perspective and ours will never agree until we first listen to Him and respond to His guidance.

“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. ¹³ Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ¹⁴ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. ¹⁶ For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

– 1 Corinthians 2:12-16