Was Sickness Part of God’s Creation?

Then God saw everything that He made and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. -Genesis 1:31

God had just finished Creation. He said, “That’s it. I’m through!” He finished creation displayed His perfect will for Adam and all his descendants. That was the way He wanted everything to be.

But what was not in God’s creation on that sixth day? Well, you’ll never find a Scripture that says, “On such-and-such a day, God created sickness and disease.” You’ll never read, “And God said, ‘Let there be cancer!! Let there be pneumonia!” No, God looked at His creation, and “behold, it was very good” (Gen 1:31). That means sickness and disease were absent in the original creation.

When Adam sinned and fell spiritually in the Garden of Eden, he chose a new master to serve. He turned creation over to the enemy. At that moment, Satan became the god of this world with a long-term lease on creation.

When Satan entered into his new domain, he brought all his goods with him—sickness, disease, fear, poverty, depression, oppression, death and everything else that’s evil. Someone once said, “Sickness is the foul offspring of its father, Satan, and its mother, sin.”

You don’t find sickness and disease anywhere in the Bible until after Satan became the god of this world. Then you find sickness running rampant throughout the earth.

Satan is the author of sickness. He brought it into the earth with him. And only through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the Cross would life ever again become “very good” on this earth.

CONFESSION:

Sickness doesn’t come from God. Satan is the father of all diseases, but I’ve been delivered from his kingdom. I walk in health and healing because my Father wants me well!

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999