Does God Make People Sick?

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Who Are You Representing?

Published July 30, 2010 | By Cornel

Why is it so hard to convince CHRISTIANS that their God is a good God? Why is it that those who believe in a God of love can think such horrible things about Him? When I get vocal and say healing is for everybody at anytime in any place regardless of your sin, situation, background, or convictions, the first people to tell me I am off my rocker, from the devil and a false prophet are those who seemingly represent a God of love. The problem with believing that God causes, allows or wills sickness and suffering (and I am not talking about persecution) is that it can’t be extrapolated to our own behaviour. If it is right for God to make somebody sick or allow them to suffer, then it would be right for us to do so too. If it is right for God but not for us, then God is a hypocrite who doesn’t live up to His own requirements yet judges us for breaking them.

If I were to go out and poison a town’s water supply, pretty soon the people will get sick. Then I can show up with an antidote and be the hero who saved everybody. I will only be the hero for as longs as nobody finds out I actually made them sick. The moment they find that out, I will be locked up and totally rejected by the whole town. That is just how people react. Now why would God try to use such an obviously flawed way of getting people to turn to Him? Easy, He wouldn’t. If the town’s folk would lock me up and utterly hate me for poisoning them, why would they react any different when “representatives of God’ tell them God is causing their sickness and suffering? Why on earth would that make you turn to God? “Behold, the God of love has caused you to have this cancer. Turn to Him so He can help you through it.” Why would I turn to the being that causes my suffering to be relieved of my suffering? If I am dumb enough to, that is called battered-wife syndrome: The wife just keeps going back to the husband that beats her to a pulp. JESUS DOES NOT BEAT HIS BRIDE!

Matt 7:9-11 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! NKJV

No father wishes sickness or suffering on their children. Why would God be any different? Jesus says it plainly right here that even our greatest desires to give good gifts to our own children do not even compare to the goodness that God has for us. If God gives, allows or wills sickness on anybody, then we can say sickness is a good gift based on James 1:7 which tell us every good and perfect gift is from God. This would mean that if God gave one person cancer as a ‘good gift’ that I can pray for people to receive cancer and I wouldn’t be outside the will of God because He is no respecter of persons. If it’s right for anybody, it’s right for everybody else.

Go up to any person in any hospital and tell them God willed their suffering to make them better people and count how many people rush to you for salvation. That is NOT good news! To believe that garbage you would have to reason: “Let’s trust this being, who doesn’t want my body to be well because he made me sick, to heal my spirit so I can go to heaven. He wants me to be sick but He also wants me to be saved. This doesn’t sound crazy at all! I am convinced Jesus wants to save me and give me life even though He gave me this cancer which is stealing my life. He seems pretty trustworthy and on top of things.” Hopefully somebody realizes how stupid that “gospel” sounds.

1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. (NKJV)

In Him there is NO darkness. STOP trying to put darkness in Him! If you are going to represent Him, you need to be shining light and not making excuses for darkness.