How the Mighty Fall

I was just listening to the Hillsong album This Is Our God, and came to the song "Healer." It's a great song of the power of the Holy Spirit and of how our God still heals today. Then I went to YouTube to check out if anyone had covered it or if there were any good videos of Hillsong playing it. What I came across was a video with the tag "Healer (Cancer Faked) Mike Gugliemucci." Naturally, I had to check it out.

It seems that Mike G had written this song as a prayer to God to heal him of the cancer that was ravaging his body. Only, he didn't have cancer. He was addicted to porn and the effects of this secret sin were so strong that they had wrecked havoc on his body.

I must confess here, publicly, that my first response was self-righteous judgment. I immediately decided that I would never use this song in a corporate setting because how could God use a song that was bred out of a sinful mind. Then I thought about myself. See, we never think about ourselves when self-righteousness creeps up. (Never honestly think about ourselves, I should say.)

Hearing this man's story makes the song even more powerful. God is our healer. I absolutely think that He still heals our physical bodies, but what is even more miraculous is that He heals our diseased souls. How beautiful is this! He has taken ugly, horrific memories of ugly, horrific sin in my life and driven them out. This comes from years of begging and pleading that He restore my mind and He has. He still does.

I also want to say that all of us are capable of doing the very thing that Mike G did. None of us are above this. If you think you are, may God have mercy on you, and I pray that your fall from grace is swift. I have seen this happen to friends and acquaintances in ministry and I am not too naive to think that it won't happen again. My prayer in my life is that I continue to surround myself with godly men that will point out the filth in my life. (A stronger word goes there, but we'll keep this PG rated.) I also set up very practical boundaries to protect my character. I am an outspoken advocate for Covenant Eyes and will never have a computer that isn't equipped with this software.

May humility reign in our hearts.

"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Luke 18.14

Here is the link to Mike's story.



UPDATE
According to this website, the song was actually written as a prayer to heal Mike from His addiction. The way God heals is not always comfortable, but He is faithful to hear our prayers from heaven.