Glory To God!

It's been 3.5 years of struggling with Silas's skin.  We have tried SO many things.  Dozens of diet changes and natural options and nothing seems to help.  After much agony and prayer we finally decided to try intensive steroid treatment.  Strong creams applied to  his skin twice a day.  After just 1 week his skin is significantly better!  Amazing healing!  It's easy to say that the creams healed his skin.  And yet, in a way that I can't fully explain it's also God healing Silas.

Years ago I was a science minor at a Christian college.  There were a lot of discussions about how science and faith mixed.  One of the main things I remember was one of my professors who said, Don't let God become a God of the Gaps.  Often we explain what we can with science, leaving the rest as something God miraculously does.  Then God is only in the gaps, only in the things we can't explain with logic and research.  But this is dangerous.  What happens when one of the seeming 'gaps' later gets explained by science?  Is God suddenly powerful, just because as humans we understand more?  Instead we should learn to see God in all of the amazing things of the world, even those that we CAN explain!  

This brings me back to Silas.  We have prayed constantly for healing.  So many people have prayed with us.  I hoped for a miraculous, unexplained healing.  Then it would be so easy to give all the glory and praise to God!  But instead, the healing has come through the steroid creams.  But we still need to give praise, glory, and even credit to God!  God is healing him!  Just because it's a method I can 'understand' doesn't make this any less of a miracle.  It doesn't make God any less powerful.  

Thank you God, for healing.  Glory to God in the highest!