Daily Devotional | Our Daily Bread | Put Away The Cause of Disease | 10/24/2024 | Hilari Henriques

Daily Devotional | Our Daily Bread | Put Away The Cause of Disease | 10/24/2024 | Hilari Henriques Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. Psalms 103:3-5 To ask the Lord to heal you of disease while you are continuing the cause, is only to ask the Lord to set himself against and work contrary to his own eternal laws and established principles: and all for your sake. For if a person is not willing to put away the cause of the disease,—yea, if a person is not willing to seek diligently and study faithfully to find out the cause, that he may honestly and decidedly put it away,—then it is plain that his own pleasure, and not the glory of God, is his chief aim in asking the Lord to heal him. And it is plain that in asking the Lord to do so, he does it, not for the Lord’s sake, but for his own sake.  It is a perfectly safe proposition that when a person has done all in his power to search out and put away the causes of disease, and it should be found after all that the cause is beyond all human effort to remove, then if the one sole aim of his healing is the glory of God and the keeping of the commandments of God, he may with perfect confidence and full assurance of faith ask the Lord to heal him.  And in all your searching, please remember that sin is the first of all causes of disease; for it there had never been any sin, there never could have been any disease. Accordingly the Bible, forgiveness of sin is connected with the healing of disease. “Bless the Lord, O my soul... who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases.” “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” “That ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins (he saith unto the sick of the palsy), I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald October 17, 1899, page 668