The Quickening

Quicken is an old english term which means enliven or to make alive, to make whole, complete. When I was a child I would occasionally get a splinter underneath a fingernail. My mother asked if it went into the quick. Interesting, the quick is the living tissue. If you get a splinter under your fingernail and it gets into the quick, you'll know it immediately!

Romans 8:11 is one of my favorite passages of scriptures regarding healing: "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you."

To those of us who know the abiding presence of that Spirit, the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead--that is, the Spirit that quickened the dead body of Jesus; that made the dead body of Jesus alive--we ought to experience the quickening of that Spirit in our own mortal body, our own physical, death-doomed body!

This promise belongs to every born-again Spirit-filled Christian. The abiding presence of his Spirit is working in us constantly and continuously quickening our mortal bodies so that every disease germ and every virous that comes in contact with our bodies dies instantly. He is at work in us quickening our bodies: mending every injury, curing every infirmity, and healing every illness.

I will trust in his abiding presence and the quickening of his Spirit!