This is not an issue of punishment. God’s will for his people is that they should have abundant life, not condemnation. (John 3:16-18a)
Behind the question is, often, a sense of unfairness. Sickness sometimes seems to us to be so random. So the age old question haunts many who suffer: “Why me?” Add the statement, “It’s all so unfair” and we touch something of the rawness of life. But please remember this: God is not the author of sickness; he did not place sickness on you or your loved ones. Sickness itself is the outworking of a kind of enemy activity which is one off the many consequences of the Fall. Do not blame God for what the devil has brought about, nor for the harm mankind has done to itself. God is not the cause of any ill-health or injury; he is the one who rescues us from sickness- who heals our disease.

Posted by topher on Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 at 00:00 and is filed under Northfield YA, Devotional. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.