Are You Sick?

Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you.

Exodus 23:25

Evey molecule demands intense concentration, and there are a lots of them, from one corner of the universe to the other. God holds them altogether by his continual creative power. He knows the number of hairs on the head of every man, woman and child. A record that needs to be continually updated. Angels must be attended to and given instructions. Black holes must be nourished and the temperature of the stars, regulated. The paths of trillions of meteorites must be individually plotted out, and you pray to Jesus to heal your sore toe as if you are the only concern He has in the entire universe!

Universes fly apart. Planets smash into each other. Suns turn to super novas, as God turns all attention, compassion and focus on your sore toe. And best of all, He does not make you feel as if you have inconvenienced Him. In fact, He delights when you come to Him with every little problem, always making you feel like the center of His universe. The sweet memories if the warm caress of His breath upon your brow, carrying you off into peaceful sleep.

God loves to heal. He is in the healing business. His Son healed everything He touched, everywhere he went. Jesus even healed when he was not aware of it! A woman reaching out and touching His garment, years of and suffering dissipated by the force of Jesus’ unconscious healing power.

Our bodies were not created to be sick and diseased; they were created to be filled with vibrant health, clarity of mind, and emotional stability. This can be evidenced in the living food He has specially designed for us to eat. Enzymes, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, bioflavinoids, and thousands of other unpronounceable names hidden under the skin of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and grains.

If you cut open a cantaloupe and hold it against your ear, you will hear the creative echo of God’s love and smell the sweet aroma of His enthusiastic compassion for the health and well-being of your body.

Are you sick? Then reach out to God by faith. Reach out through prayer, believing with all your heart that He loves you and will lead you beside green pastures and still waters. By faith, be willing to make changes in how you eat.

Changing your diet, for some, is the largest step of faith they will make in their entire life. When we are sick, often food can be an escape from pain. But dear friend, run into His loving embrace. Allow Him to nourish you spiritually and physically.

Sickness and disease are a symptoms of a world whose god is their stomach. A world that runs after the craving of the flesh, ignoring the cost to their health. But you are not of this world – you Shepherd will prepare a table in the presence of your enemy, whether that enemy be cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure or whatever it may be. By faith, do your best, and God will do the rest.

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