Sickness Is Not Your Teacher

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest unto your souls. -Matthew 11:29

How do we learn about the things of God? By spending time in prayer and fellowship with the Holy Spirit and in study of God’s Word.

I hear people say all the time, “I learned so much from being sick.” I admit people have learned things while they were sick, but they didn’t learn because they were sick. The learned because they fed on the Word of God and prayed. It may have been the first time they took the time to do that in a long time. That’s why a lot of folks mistakenly relate sickness to learning—they never took the time to study and pray until they got sick!

We’d be a lot better off if we learned to feed on the Word and pray when we’re not sick. We’d learn just as much, and it would be a lot less painful!

Someone once said to me, “Yeah, but I know God made me sick and wants me in the hospital, because I witnessed to someone while I was there.”

But God is intelligent, and so are we. I believe that as we wait before God in prayer, He can drop something in our hears about going to witness to someone in the hospital while we’re well. Too often we rationalize everything, trying to figure it out in our heads. Let’s just stick with the truth found in the Bible and accept God’s promise of health and healing every day!

CONFESSION:

God sent the Holy Spirit to be my teacher. The Holy Spirit shows me in the Word that Jesus took my sins and my sicknesses. I’m so glad I can learn of Him while I walk in His blessing of health!

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