READ: PSALM
91:1-10
From
today’s devotional passage, we can deduce two kinds of evil: physical evil
(illness, disease, poverty, accidents) and the evil that has to do with the
soul. The passage teaches that not only will God preserve us from all evil; He
will also preserve us from the evil that is spiritual in nature. To preserve is
to eliminate elements of corruption, permanently. So God is saying that he
would remove, permanently, anything that stands to deform you. For example, if
God wants to preserve anyone, He would first arrest the corruption that may
already exist in him, and then eliminate it. Thereafter, He ensures that those
elements of corruption do not return into that person. For example, if God
wants to preserve in divine health, the first thing He will do is heal the
sufferer, just the same way we preserve meat by first removing the maggots in
it. If you are ill, God will remove the bacteria of the illness from your
system and heal you by His stripes, according to 1 Peter 2:24 “Who
Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to
sins, might live for righteousness –by whose stripes you were healed.”
He can also heal you by His words, according to Psalm 107:20, “He
sent His word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction.”
Healing is a gift from God and it is not something we struggle for. If you want
to receive healing, you can have it today. He has to heal you before He can
preserve in divine health. After healing you, He will make sure that illness
and disease do not return to you. He has promised to do this if you obey Him.
The Lord says, in Exodus 15:26, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord
your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and
keep all His statutes, I will not put none of the diseases on you which I have
brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”He is saying
that, after healing you, He will make sure that sickness does not come t your
body again provided you obey Him. God wants you to go from the realm of healing
to the realm of divine health. Maintain a healthy relationship with God and you
will begin to enjoy divine health.
MEMORIZE:
1 PETER 2:24 –Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we,
having died to sins, might live for righteousness –by whose stripes you were
healed.
