Do We Enjoy Sickness
But in this world our bodies endure sickness pain decay.
Do we enjoy sickness. Make no mistake god is grieved when those he loves are suffering. It has been considered a condition since the medieval ages and symptoms that have remained consistent across time include a loss of appetite and insomnia. We can choose to be miserable or we can choose to learn about ourselves and grow from the experience. While that may sometimes be the case sickness is often just a result of living in a fallen world.
He created the human body and he is pleased when we enjoy health and vigor. So why does god allow this. Lovesickness refers to an affliction that can produce negative feelings when deeply in love during the absence of a loved one or when love is unrequited. It is undeniable though that god sometimes intentionally allows or even causes sickness to accomplish his sovereign purposes.
It is only a sickness when you derive pleasure from it and will consistently do it even when you know it is wrong. When we get sick we all have a choice of how to work with illness. He often shows his love and compassion for us through others who minister to us and care for us during times of sickness 2 corinthians 1 3 5. We can begin to believe that sickness is the result of a person s sin.
This means everlasting life their taking in knowledge of you the only true god and of the one whom you sent forth jesus christ. Learning to not hurt those you love will be a lesson well learnt. We think that a good and loving god would not allow sickness and yet we know that sickness exists. Sickness can be a means of god s loving discipline.
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn t fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. While sickness is not directly addressed in the passage hebrews 12 5 11 describes god disciplining us to produce a harvest of righteousness verse 11. Getting sick is rarely if ever fun for anyone but we all get sick. In sickness and in health in times of hurt and healing we have to remember to trust god.
What you need to do jesus christ pointedly explained what we must do in order to enjoy a future world without sickness. We are just human doing human things and hopefully learning from our mistakes. Sometimes we abuse our own bodies but often our ailments occur because well we don t always know why nor does god promise that we will understand why.