HIS WILL IS TO TAKE
SICKNESS AWAY AND FULFILL OUR DAYS
When we
read in the Bible that God says, “I will,” we need to understand that God is
telling us what He desires, what He wants for us. He is saying, “You want to know what My will is? This is it.” In the original texts, God jumps
directly to the action, which we find after the “I will.” “Put none of these diseases on
thee,” “take sickness away,”
and “fulfill your days” are
three phrases I’ll briefly talk about in this post.
The first phrase is in
Exodus 15:26: “I will
put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians:
for I am the Lord that healeth thee.” In this verse, “put” is a Hebrew word which
means “place, set, bring to pass, lay upon.” Part of the meaning of this word
is “consider.” God wouldn’t even consider laying any of these diseases on us.
It wouldn’t even cross His mind! I found the following on some of these diseases:
“A team of specialists
from around the world gathered in 1975 for the express purpose of performing
autopsies on the Egyptian mummies in the Manchester (England) Medical School
museum. These mummies dated back to 1900 B.C. The ancient Egyptians suffered
from many illnesses common to modern man: heart disease, cancer, vascular diseases,
arthritis, hepatitis, tetanus, trichinosis, lockjaw, tuberculosis, boils, parasites,
and others.”
God doesn’t put disease on us, and
it is His will that none afflict us. If they do, then there is a cure. Going to
God and reminding Him of His will is certainly a good place to start. And
especially since in the very same verse,
He says: “I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
The next phrase I want to look at is in Exodus
23:25: “I will take sickness away
from the midst of thee.”
The word “take” means “remove,
to cause to depart, to come to an end, reject, abolish, pluck away, to turn
off, behead, withdraw and be without.” Those are powerful words, and those are what the Lord God, our Creator,
wants to do to ANY sickness
that attacks us from within or without.
The last verse I want to look
at is Exodus 23:26: “The number of thy days I will fulfill.” We use the phrase, “they
died before their time.” There is a time set for each of our lives, and the
Bible says it is when the number of our days have been fulfilled. But let’s look at what that word “fulfilled” really
means.
It’s the Hebrew word “male’,” which means
accomplished, replenished, overflow, satisfied. It means fullness, abundance, complete.
It means to fill any vacant place with abundance, like in Genesis 1:22, “fill
the waters in the sea, or Exodus 40:34 “the glory of Jehovah filled the
tabernacle.” It’s also used of satisfying
the soul, i.e., the desire, the hunger. It
means to do anything fully or thoroughly. In Jeremiah 4:5 “male’” is translated,
“cry out fully, i.e., strongly. All of
these great attributes are God’s will
for fulfilling our days here on earth.
The above three “I will”
verses are great ones to study and meditate upon.
Slowly re-read the paragraphs above, pausing at each definition of God’s action
word. Think about what the Lord is really
saying to you. Put the verse in your own words. Memorize the verses and repeat
them aloud.
If we can believe, we
receive. “Jesus
said unto him, ‘If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.’ And straightway the
father of the child cried out, and said with tears, ‘Lord, I believe; help thou
mine unbelief’” (Mark 9:23-24).
Love, Carolyn
GREAT READING FOR 2018
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