What Do You Do When God Doesn't Heal You? | With JD Fitz, MD

What happens to your relationship with God when the healing you're praying for never comes?

In 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.

This 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.

Rob 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.

You'll Hear

• JD's story, from knee replacement to amputation to the ongoing possibility he may never walk again
• Why he initially felt isolated from God, and what shifted that
• His metaphor for healing as "God's lightning," and why not every prayer gets struck
• How Romans 5 and Hebrews 5 reshaped his understanding of suffering and obedience
• Why empathy, not answers, became the clearest fruit of his suffering
• The moment he realized his own prosthetic leg had quietly become a kind of golden calf
• Why surrender, not acceptance, is the more accurate Christian posture toward suffering
• What it means to build a "values-based obituary" instead of an achievement-based one

Journal Prompts

• Holy Spirit, remind me of a specific time I was suffering.
• Jesus, what did you teach me in this season of suffering? And how did this make me a better lover?
• From JD: In your current suffering, big or small, what are you being asked to surrender?

About JD Fitz
JD is Rob's brother-in-law and a retired physician who spent his career in internal medicine and hospital administration. He's the author of Finding Hope, which traces his journey through years of medical complications following a knee replacement and eventual amputation.

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Chapters
00:36 Introducing JD Fitz
04:03 A Life With Little Suffering, Until Now
06:13 A Cascade of Complications
09:20 Isolation, Depression, and the Start of Writing
11:16 Why Healing Doesn't Come for Everyone
14:04 Rethinking the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in Suffering
21:29 Discovering Empathy Through the Amputation
25:02 What Love Requires: Curiosity
29:42 Victor Frankl and the Search for Meaning
33:04 The Fulcrum Moment: Surrender
37:30 Is This a Golden Calf? Confronting What We Worship
39:36 Journal Prompts on Suffering and Surrender