Health Of Heaven!
And the inhabitant of Zion will not say,
“I am sick”; the people who dwell in it
will be forgiven their
iniquity.
Isaiah 33: 24
The World Health Organization estimates that
global healthcare spending rose to $9 trillion
in 2020 when COVID-19 pandemic began
to spread.
That dollar amount represented around 11
percent of global gross domestic product.
Nine trillion dollars is an incomprehensible
number, but imagine how those dollars could
be spent if the world wasn’t subject to
illness.
There was no sickness in the Garden of Eden,
When
sin entered the world, sickness followed.
All sickness is the result, directly or indirectly,
of sin—living in a fallen world. Scripture clearly
links sin and sickness in the same discussion.
But in the Millennium, things will be
different.
The world will be a healthier place (Isaiah 4:2;
27:6; Joel 2:24) and most people will live in
resurrected, immortal bodies not subject to
illness (1 Corinthians 15:43).
Even though we may be subject to illness today,
we can seek and trust “the Lord who heals us”
(Exodus 15:26). His words are “life to those
who find them, and health to all their flesh”
(Proverbs 4:22).
"Health is a good thing;
but sickness is far better,
if it leads us to God."
J. C. Ryle
