- Heal diseases
Psalm 103:3b
Who healeth all thy diseases.
Is this an unconditional promise from God to me that He will heal all my diseases, or is it conditional on something else? There are no conditions involved so it would be unconditional. We must not add any conditions to a promise where God did not place any, for example: you must pray better; you must have more faith; you must stop sinning; you must do enough good works. All of these conditions for healing are nothing more than excuses for the promise of God’s Word, that is, the fault must be in human sin and failure rather than in God’s power and promise.
But is it a promise or a statement of fact? When I am healed of a disease it is God who healed me: this is true, but it must have something of a promise attached to the remembrance of His benefits (v. 2). It must be a promise and it must be real, even though universally every human being who ever lived is a walking denial of the promise: “God did not heal all my diseases.” So everyone can say.
Reconcile experience and truth this way: God will heal you of all your diseases in His time or in eternity. Disease is a direct result of Sin and of Adam’s Fall; Sin is the only cause of death; disease is a portion of Death coming early and often intruding into a healthy and long life. Christ redeemed us from death by His violent Resurrection and defeated it forever; in this way Christ also redeemed us and healed us from disease, of which Death is the cause. John 11:25: “Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.” We are dying and we will die; yet we shall live. In the same way, we are sick and we will contract disease, yet we shall be healed.
The healing promised by God is Spiritual and it is Eternal; and sometimes, in His inscrutable wisdom, He chooses to make a physical healing; the physical, miraculous, sudden temporal healings are designed to draw us to pay attention to God’s Word, which promises us spiritual and eternal healing completely and absolutely. Jesus healed over thirty people in His ministry and every one got sick again and died again. Jesus’ healing of disease is a sign of His power over death and disease and His guarantee that one day, in the general resurrection, death and disease will be no more. The promise will come true.
In other words, this is not a promise that every present disease you have today will be miraculously healed. That does not mean you should not pray for immediate healing; it only means we do not have a promise of transient, temporary healing by sudden and miraculous means. However, in the midst of sickness and death we do have the promise and absolute guarantee of disease and death being healed forever.
“He healeth all my diseases” can be paraphrased “He overcomes death.”
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