Subject: Divine Healing? |
Bible Note: Debbie, God may use us in our sickness, disease, poverty, etc. to touch the lives of others, but that doesn't mean that He's the one who made us that way. I knew a girl who had terrible heart troubles and out of her being in and out of a certain hospital, she got to know some people and plant some seeds. She over came the odds and now her transplanted heart is working as good as mine (with which there has never been any medical problems). But God didn't give her the heart condition so she could touch those people, not one place in the Bible does it say that God gave someone a sickness to do the work of the ministry. God used the fact that she had a heart condition and was in that hospital interacting with those people. God didn't look down from Heaven one day and say, "I'm going to make sister so and so sick so they can be a good witness to Dr. Whoever." On the contrary, it probably went more like this, "Sister so and so is in the hospital under the care of Dr. Whoever. Her family is asking me to guide the hands of the doctors and nurses, so I'll do that. I know she will tell Dr. Whoever that the LORD has healed her." Do you see the difference? I don't know where people get the idea that we were given sickness to fulfill something. It certainly isn't in the Bible. Also, if God put sickness on us for a reason, then why would Jesus go around undoing all the Father's work? To which verse in 2 Cor 1 are you referring? Jesified |