{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"100xLife Podcast","title":"What Do You Do When God Doesn't Heal You? | With JD Fitz, MD","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2849,"description":"What happens to your relationship with God when the healing you're praying for never comes?\n\nIn this episode of the 100xLife Podcast, Rob Dayton talks with his brother-in-law JD Fitz, a retired physician, husband, and author of Finding Hope, about a season of suffering that started with a knee replacement and became a years-long journey through infection, amputation, failed surgeries, and the real possibility that he may never walk again.\nThis conversation doesn't offer easy answers. JD speaks candidly about feeling isolated from God, the anger he never quite let himself feel, the depression that followed, and the slow, costly work of surrender that eventually opened into something he didn't expect, a deepened capacity for empathy, a renewed intimacy with each member of the Trinity, and a clearer sense of purpose than he'd ever had before his suffering began.\nRob and JD trace the actual shape of that journey together, from crisis, to lament, to surrender, to a kind of purpose neither of them could have written down in advance. Along the way, they wrestle honestly with why some people are healed and others aren't, what it means to trust a Father who could heal you and doesn't, and how suffering, handled honestly, can become one of the clearest pathways into a deeper capacity to love.\nYou'll Hear\nJD's story, from knee replacement to amputation to the ongoing possibility he may never walk again\nWhy he initially felt isolated from God, and what shifted that\nHis metaphor for healing as \"God's lightning,\" and why not every prayer gets struck\nHow Romans 5 and Hebrews 5 reshaped his understanding of suffering and obedience\nWhy empathy, not answers, became the clearest fruit of his suffering\nThe moment he realized his own prosthetic leg had quietly become a kind of golden calf\nWhy surrender, not acceptance, is the more accurate Christian posture toward suffering\nWhat it means to build a \"values-based obituary\" instead of an achievement-based one\nJournal Prompts\nHoly...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fk8i8MULr47QC0r5Le0KOKVMRCCCCg_RE4hSB7wAygQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZDdm/Y2JlNDdmYTQyMGMx/OTc0Y2RhNzVhMGE1/ZTJhNy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}