LIGHT FOR HEALING AND HEALTH (6)

“And the LORD will take away from you ALL SICKNESS, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt...” – Deuteronomy 7:15a

Trusting and obeying God’s Word attracts LIGHT for HEALING and HEALTH: “And the LORD will take away from you ALL SICKNESS, and will afflict you with NONE of the TERRIBLE SICKNESSES of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on those who hate you” (Deut.7:15). God, in this passage, assured Moses of the blessings His people would receive for obeying His commandments: “Then it shall come to pass, because you LISTEN to these judgements, and KEEP and DO them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers” (v.12). Key among these are the blessings of Healing and Health. A state of Divine Health is one that’s devoid of the terrible sicknesses that the people had known to be prevalent in Egypt – and still are in this present evil world system.

The package of Redemption in Christ comprises the blessings of Healing and Health, both of which were bought and paid for by the Blood of Jesus Christ. It is God’s Will to heal the sick, but His Perfect Plan is that we live above sickness. The ideal for Zion’s inhabitants is a life devoid of diseases: “And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”; the people that dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity” (Isa.33:24). Exodus 23:25-26 affirms: “So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I WILL TAKE SICKNESS AWAY from the midst of you. No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfil the number of your days.”

Israel operated in Divine Health even while in the wilderness: “He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes” (Psa.105:37). Why then should New Covenant Believers be bound by diseases and sicknesses. Healing and Health are rooted in Redemption’s package in the Old and New Covenants: “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes WE ARE HEALED” (Isa.53:5); “Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness – by Whose stripes YOU WERE HEALED” (1 Pet.2:24).

Christ has taken away sicknesses and deleted diseases from our domains: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses” (Mt.8:17b). Though Healing is of God, His desire is not for us to be begging for healing, cringing under incessant assault of the devil, demons, and diseases, but to live in Divine Health, enjoying the full Inheritance of God’s Covenants of Healing and Health, as we cherish and obey His Words. Our Father shall bring to light all it takes to keep our bodies and souls in sound and excellent Health (3Jh.2).