Where did sickness come from? Did God create sickness? Did He create disease germs? After all some people say He created all things. So many people have asked these questions about God, and a lot of Christians believe that God punishes and corrects with sickness. The most important thing to understand is this - God wants you well and in good health, and He isn't the originator of sickness. James 1:17, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning," Only good and perfect gifts come from God. Sickness is not a good gift, just as lack is not a good gift. Sickness destroys and cripples. God wouldn't do that to any of His children. Sickness is incipient death. And the Bible calls death 'an enemy' (1 Corinthians 15:26). God would not punish His children with the tool of the enemy. Sickness has ruined many families, it drained their entire livelihood until they became poor, just like the woman with the issue of blood (Matthew 9:20). God wouldn't give His children such 'gifts.' I wish you would know the heart of God when death seizes upon a family. The Psalmist said, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints" (Psalm 116:15). SICKNESS-A LEGACY OF THE FALL After God created man in the Garden of Eden, He gave him dominion over all the works of His hand. God told Adam he could have anything in the garden for food except for the tree in the midst of the garden. Genesis 2:16-17, "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." God told Adam; "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die." This was more than physical death, which is a cessation of life. After Adam ate from the tree he did not die physically immediately. This scripture therefore referred not only to physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; being cut off from fellowship with God. Thus the day Adam disobeyed God's instruction and ate from the tree, he died spiritually, and only then could he die physically. Man is a spirit, he possesses a soul with which he regulates his life, actions, thoughts, reasonings and emotions, and he lives in a body (1 Corinthians 5:23). The body is his house. Through disobedience, sin gained dominion over man's spirit, and through sin fear also got a hold of him. His soul fell and he was cut off from God. His reasoning changed. He now became afraid of the creatures over which he had previously exercised dominion. He was cut off from fellowship with God because he now had the nature of the devil, and a new master. Death came in with its companions, one of which is sickness - incipient death. So sickness came about as a result of the sin of the first Adam. Yes, bacteria and viruses were created by God, so was the mosquito. Mosquitoes were never made to suck blood. God made all insects to suck nectar, and bacteria and virus cells were not made to bring sickness to anybody. But after the fall of man, when the devil stole man's dominion, he infused them with death - which is his life. That's the reason they harm those that are under his power till today.
DENNIS KALONJI
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