Hanging on to the Truth of God When the Facts Tell a Different Story

June 28, 2026

Hanging on to the Truth of God When the Facts Tell a Different Story

One question has been occupying my mind lately.

As the founder of White Coat Revival, people often ask me how I reconcile the hope woven throughout my messages with the reality of what they—or someone they love—is facing medically.

How can I talk about being a vessel for complete healing in partnership with God when the diagnosis, the scans, the laboratory results, and the prognosis seem to tell a completely different story?

My answer usually begins with another question.

How do we hold tightly to the Truth of God while honestly acknowledging the medical facts before us?

Every clinician has experienced it. A patient presents with symptoms. The laboratory results return with answers. Imaging confirms the suspected diagnosis. The evidence continues to accumulate, providing countless explanations for why the patient is suffering.

Medicine asks us to study the facts. And it should. Facts matter.

But I’ve found myself asking…

Should the facts become the final authority over what I expect God can do?

No. Not according to Scripture.

I believe Jesus took upon Himself the sin of the world, and that includes the curse of disease. When I study the Gospels, I see disease, illness, and infirmity continually yielding in the presence of God. Jesus demonstrated this over and over again.

So how do we live in the tension between these two realities?

We are called to study the visible world through medical science while, as believers, simultaneously surrendering to the invisible Truth of God.

The facts help me understand the current condition. 

The Truth of God shapes my expectation for what is still possible.

Those are not opposing ideas.

In fact, I believe they belong together. One without the other leaves us with an incomplete calling.

As medical professionals, we should pursue excellence in science, diagnostics, and clinical reasoning. We never ignore what is before us. Denying the facts is just as limiting as denying God’s Truth.

But we also don’t have to surrender our hope to what we currently see and factually know.

Perhaps this is one of the greatest invitations for those of us working in medicine.

To become people who can look honestly at every fact without allowing those facts to diminish our confidence in God.

Before our daughter was miraculously healed, we lived in this tension for years before we ever recognized these as two distinct paths.

We valued the diagnostic answers. We were grateful for a pharmaceutical solution that helped her.

Yet every day for more than nine years, her medicine bottle and syringe sat in a small medicine cup on our kitchen counter.

Written on the side of that cup were these words:

“Lord, we pray this medicine is a blessing to Deonna, and we know You are her Healer.”

We prayed those words every time we administered her medicine. Throughout those nine years, we couldn’t explain why we felt compelled to write them on that cup or speak them aloud.

Looking back, I now realize God was teaching us something long before He gave me the words to share it with others.

We were holding tightly to the Truth of God while honestly acknowledging the medical facts and respecting the science before us.

I invite you to spend a few quiet moments with God this week. Ask Him to remind you of times when you held onto His Truth while faithfully respecting the facts before you. Then ask Him to reveal any places where the facts may have quietly become the final authority instead of His Truth.

I’d love to hear your stories.

Imagine a world where you and your colleagues practiced medicine this way.

Where facts inform your decisions, but Truth shapes your expectations.

I can imagine it.

In fact, I believe that is God’s design for those He has called into medicine—to become vessels who acknowledge the facts while never losing sight of His Truth. Can you imagine it too? 

For we walk by faith, not by sight [living our lives in a manner consistent with our confident belief in God’s promises]

— 2 Corinthians 5:7 (AMP)