Getting Juju'd

In Zambia, the juju gets around. 'Juju' is the practice of magic used by witchdoctors, witches, traditional healers, AND an awful lot of Christians. Many Zambian Christians have one foot in the Bible and the other in traditional practices that depend on the favor of dark forces.
I heard a firsthand story about a Zambian Christian who had an intense pain in his abdomen. He couldn't get any relief from the medical clinics so eventually he went to see a witch doctor. The witch doctor cut him open, put some herbs and a little scroll with a magic incantation into the wound and sewed him up (with the herbs and the scroll still inside!). A few days later, the guy was healed. There's no good medical explanation for why he was healed. Shoving leaves and paper into your abdomen and then closing it up should lead to a bad infection. He believes (as do I) that something supernatural happened. That's why one of his Christian brothers got on his case when he saw the scar, and asked him "where was your faith in Jesus?" The healed man was ashamed he had gone over to the dark side for some help but said he needed healing at any cost.
I'm not judging this guy - I'm no better than him, and I feel for him. I think his struggle is a little picture of what all of us who are trying to follow Jesus go through. Western Christians run to ungodly stuff too...we just don't call it juju. We flirt with the world and it's beliefs and it's systems all the time. We sorta believe in Jesus and kinda listen to what He said, but when something comes along that we really want or we go through a tough time, we often put truth aside and run for the easy fix. Let me ask all of us a question: When we are in a tight spot (or there is something that we really want) and the only way to get out of the jam (or get what we want) is to disobey Jesus...what will we do? Who will we trust? Do we really believe that Jesus loves us and wants our best, or will we trust something else? I'm thinking it would be better to stay sick (or lonely, or poor, or fill in the blank) if that's what God wants rather than be healed by the wrong means. Anything that is opposed to Jesus is bad juju whether you're in Zambia or America. More later...