Sunset & Skyline

We have been doing a song called “Healer” since last April. It’s an incredibly powerful song to sing; declaring that we believe He is our healer, our portion, our everything. There is power in declaring that! When I began to research the tune, I found out it was written by a pastor who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Believing that God is fully capable of miraculous healing, he sat down one night at a piano and wrote “Healer”. All over the world, people have been corporately worshiping and singing that song, and I have come across a handful of testimonies of people experiencing healing through that very worship.

If you are at all familiar with the song or have been following the news, you have probably heard what is going on lately with it. The pastor who wrote it came forward last week and confessed that he had never had cancer. There really isn’t a way to sugarcoat the situation; he deceived not only his church and his family, but a world of believers who know his story and love the song.

Micah filled me in on the situation as soon as he heard, and immediately I thought to myself, “what now?” The situation breaks my heart, absolutely, but am I supposed to pull the song from our repertoire? Will it be embarrassing to come back and play it in church on Sunday, knowing everybody has heard about it? Or maybe even more embarrassing to never play it/speak of it again?

God’s truth is God’s truth, is what I say. I don’t want to mention this pastor’s name because I know there are probably a million articles and interviews and speculations about him right now and I don’t want to fuel that fire, regardless of whether he deserves it or not. The guy fell. Yes, he is a public figure and he fell hard. But I’m pretty sure we all have moments like that. Thanks be to God that amidst that, He still is who He says He is. I love Romans 8:28 – In all things, God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. In ALL things. Yeah, maybe this song was written selfishly and we were deceived by this man’s false testimony, but ya know what….that song has some SERIOUS TRUTH in it. Praise God. I can only speak for myself, but I believe that I have experienced healing through that song. It’s almost funny. Look what our King does….trash into treasure. Beauty from ashes. Even in our moments of weakness and sin, God USES those things for His glory.

I hurt for the guy who wrote this song. He is obviously catching a ton of flack, and yeah, I think what he did was wrong, but who am I? It would just be incredibly fitting if he could sit down, amidst all this turmoil, hurt and confusion, and look at the words that God penned through him. We screw up. But we believe that He is our Healer.