Do We Enjoy Sickness
Learning to not hurt those you love will be a lesson well learnt.
Do we enjoy sickness. But in this world our bodies endure sickness pain decay. 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. What you need to do jesus christ pointedly explained what we must do in order to enjoy a future world without sickness. Psalm 107 9 says for he satisfies the longing soul and the hungry soul he fills with good things.
We think that a good and loving god would not allow sickness and yet we know that sickness exists. 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. He created the human body and he is pleased when we enjoy health and vigor. While that may sometimes be the case sickness is often just a result of living in a fallen world.
We can choose to be miserable or we can choose to learn about ourselves and grow from the experience. You can cheat on your taxes but you can t cheat on sickness. When we get sick we all have a choice of how to work with illness. Sickness can be a means of god s loving discipline.
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. In sickness and in health in times of hurt and healing we have to remember to trust god. It is only a sickness when you derive pleasure from it and will consistently do it even when you know it is wrong. Make no mistake god is grieved when those he loves are suffering.
It is undeniable though that god sometimes intentionally allows or even causes sickness to accomplish his sovereign purposes. We are just human doing human things and hopefully learning from our mistakes. Getting sick is rarely if ever fun for anyone but we all get sick. 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.
So why does god allow this. 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. 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.