Healing & Medicine

Healing & Medicine.
Faith in Healing and the role of Medicine.

Just as in Mark 9: 40, where it is written, "for whoever is not against us is for us." I do believe everything that is not against the will of God for our life must be for us.

Our use of pharmaceutical drugs to effect our healing and wellness is by no means an indication of our lack of faith in God's transforming word to heal us when our bodies are plagued by sickness and disease.

Whether we are afflicted by one ailment or the other, God knows. It is in His permissive will. 

The means by which He'll give us respite or complete healing is also in his purview and is His divine prerogative, and in truth, most of the effective pharmaceutical drugs or herbal remedies we may choose to take as well, were not discovered and concocted without His divine wisdom and input. 

All God requires of us is that we take them with thanksgiving, giving Him the glory due Him for their existence and ability to give us respite when ill.

In John chapter 9, Jesus healed the man that was born blind by using the resources of the earth that was created by him and for him.

Jesus simply spat on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, put it on the man's eyes, and told him to wash in the Pool of Siloam and the man came home seeing as a result.

After all, the remedy we choose to take or God's words that we confess to effect our healing all derive their potency from our faith in them or shall I say our faith in their true source.

Finally, let's be doubly sure that we are in the center of God's will concerning whatever measure or medium we choose to effect our healing and that of others, for as in 3 John 1:2, it is God's will that we enjoy good health and that all goes well with us as our soul prospers in Him. 
Just as the warning, "If symptoms persist see your doctor!" is commonly seen on several drugs, as God's people we must also go back to the Great Physician when what we choose to use as a remedy is not giving us the desired result. He can never be tired of attending to us. 

We don't need to book an appointment with Him nor should we see our consultation with him as a lack of faith on our part.

Shalom