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“Worshipping God is about surrender. Surrendering to God’s will when it doesn’t match ours or when we’re too impatient to wait for him. Surrendering that which is most important to us. And surrendering our personal story to live out our part in God’s greater story. Worship is surrendering everything for God, valuing God so much that we’re willing to let everything else go.”

Yes. Jesus could have healed all the broken legs, ear infections, strep throat, breast cancers, and indigestion that was coughed up before him. But that would only have been a temporal healing. It wouldn't have healed their relationship with God.

— When God Doesn’t Fix It, Laura Story

While doctors can heal physical ailments, emational wounds can be soothed, and grief lessens with time, our broken relationship with God continues to cause us pain even when our life is going well.

God wants to restore our relationship with him more than anything else. Though he loves us, he'll allow us to feel the pain of this warld's unhealed hurts if it brings us closer to him.