Q: May it not be that much of our sickness is sent from the hand of the Lord to make us better Christians or to keep us from wandering away?
A: This is an old and oft advanced theory but it is without foundation in the Word of God. The thought of our tender, sympathizing Jesus planting within His children cruel cancers to burn and gnaw and eat their way into the very heart of the sufferer, or paralysis to the limbs of little children that they can run and play no more, or blindness to the eyes of the father that he can no more more earn his daily bread. . .
This is not the work of our Lord but of the archfiend Satan whose work Jesus came to destroy. When the Lord made the world, it was pure, innocent, free from sin and sickness. 'Twas the devil who sowed these seeds but there is deliverance through the triune God for body, soul and Spirit.
-- Aimee Semple McPherson
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