Here I go, inviting the wrath of those who are caught up in the "health-wealth" mentality: After due consideration, I am convinced that God does, at times, cause His children to suffer physical ailments. Now hear me out and please don't go to the extreme with this concept and every time you get a slight fever cry out frantically, "Oh, I think God is punishing me!"
God is not a God who dabbles in trivialities. He does not toy with us nor, on the other hand, does He take vengeance on us for mistakes, sins or whatever is not quite right with us. God takes vengeance on the wicked. His own children sometimes need discipline and He will mete that out to them, but only in love. It will be for their good. Whatever God does to you as a child of God, or whatever He allows to happen to you, the aim is for your purification and discipline; God will never harm you.
If you are experiencing suffering because you have not listened and if you now hearken to His voice from the midst of the distress that has overtaken you, He will soften the blow and heal you physically or in whatever area you need healing. But if you refuse to listen to what God is trying to tell you – I have to say that I would not want to be in your position.
"Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?" (Rom 9:20)
God has a plan for you, one that He envisioned from forever. It is important to God and it should be very important to you. This great God has laid His hand on you for a reason: that should set alarms ringing in your head. You have not hitherto inquired as to the reason He saved you nor have you bothered to follow Him closely. Perhaps you are one of the thousands of Christians who are following their Lord from a distance and have let "things" and carnal pursuits come between them and their Savior.
Wake up! The affliction or whatever it may be that is causing you such discomfort is an alarm going off in your head and you drowsily reach over and turn it off so that you can go back to sleep. This is foolishness! I am not about to pronounce doom over you – I don't want to pronounce doom over anyone – because I was once as you are and God was patient to the extreme with me. By the grace of God I came awake and now I am trying to wake you up.
Please, please hear me, or rather, hear the voice of God trying to bestir you before it is too late. You are still a child of God, but you will not be a child of God forever if you do not wake up and run close to Jesus. There is a great future for you if you will apply yourself to whatever task or tasks God may have waiting for you to do. I will not bamboozle you: the work God wants you to do will more than likely be small in the eyes of men. But who are they and what do they know? How important is the reckoning of men? I can guarantee you greatness in the sight of God.
Of course I am not speaking to everyone that is sick. But someone somewhere is sick physically or tormented in their mind because they have not listened to the call of God to greatness. Examine yourself. Is that someone you? Why suffer further and why delay your fascinating journey into the sweet will of God? He is waiting for you.
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