I’m making this post brief because I’ve been sick for more than a week. I’d flown to Texas to work on administrative matters matters for West Coast Bible College but I was fine then.
As most of you know, people have to wear masks in airports and in planes, so I had a good chance to prove the worth of my mask. I can tell you, wearing one for hours at a time gets too warm. I feel for those who have to wear one when they’re on the job. That’s not easy!
The day after I returned, I started to feel bad and got bad fast. I was too sick to go to church (thank God for live streamed services!) but lying in bed most of the day didn’t help.
It reached the point where I thought I’d contracted the COVID variant because I had many of the same symptoms.
But the test proved negative, so this could be little more than a summer cold on steroids! I don’t know how else to explain it, except to say it wiped me out most of the week.
I’m grateful that Jesus healed multitudes throughout His ministry.
“When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them and healed their sick.” – Matthew 14:14
“At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them.” – Luke 4:40
And He extended that ministry to His church.
“The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. 13No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. 14Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. 15As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. 16Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.” – Acts 5:12-16
But believers don’t have unlimited authority over disease. As Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 4:20. “Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus sick in Miletus.”
This doesn’t mean God’s withdrawn His healing power. Sickness is part of a world tarnished by sin and its effects. When Jesus returns, He will eradicate disease. Indeed, we will resurrect us so that nothing can harm us. We will have bodies like His!
“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” – 1 John 3:2
In the meantime, we trust in the goodness and power of Jesus Christ. We rely on God’s promises. And we continue to serve Him in the strength of His Spirit.
If we undergo a physical trial, we know that in the end, it can’t win. By God’s grace, we will. Our Lord Jesus–crucified and risen–will see to it.
Hallelujah!
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