So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God.
Acts 3:8-9
The disabled man was healed >>by the power of God, >>working through the Apostle Peter, >>in the name of Jesus Christ. Note the following about supernatural healings:
When God heals it is complete, unlike the self-proclaimed “healing-hucksters.” Many attend their meetings, very few receive “healings,” and even those are still impaired by whatever malady they arrived with. This man didn’t throw his crutches down and hobble away. He was was “walking, and leaping, and praising God.”
While God can (and sometimes does) physically heal people today, whether by medicine or miracle, the greatest miracle is raising the dead. And the miracle we love most is when Jesus raises the spiritually dead to life. It is called salvation.
The same results should be seen spiritually as were seen in the case of the physically disabled man in Acts 3.
When we are forgiven, we are completely forgiven, We are no longer under any condemnation or bondage to sin.
When we are forgiven, we are enabled to do what we could not do before we were forgiven, namely: say “No” to sin! Did you catch that? We are freed not only from sin’s condemnation, but from bondage to sin. We still struggle with sin, but when we are saved, we are no longer slaves to sin.
When we are forgiven, we not only have reason to praise God, we do praise God. After all, we have been rescued from sin, death, Hell, and the devil—and can at last do what we were created for: to praise God!
When we are forgiven, our lives become a testimony to others, who, if they too will respond to Christ and the gospel, will likewise be saved. And once saved, they too will join the ranks of those who praise the Lord.
Compare that to being healed physically. While that is indeed a blessing that affords us much to be thankful for, those who are healed physically will get sick and and will all die someday. Those who are saved, are saved forever!