TAKE YOUR MEDICINE!

Proverbs 4:21-22 AMPC

Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. [22] For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh.

 

Medicine! There are millions of medicines for all kinds of treatment, but nothing beats God’s medicine. If you’re currently on medication that you need to take in doses at certain times, you might wonder—is seeing doctors or using medicine wrong? No! God created everything, including health practitioners and the ingredients used in drugs. However, in our world today, medicine has become very expensive and is often only affordable to those with deep pockets.

In these present times, believers must live by faith and not by sight, as 2 Corinthians 5:7 says. We should not depend solely on man-made medicine to get well but remember that God is always working behind the scenes.

What’s your first thought when you’re unwell? Go to the doctor, right? Why not go to God first? There is nothing wrong with seeing a doctor—I encourage it as necessary to know your health status, and also to know how and what to pray for. Doctors and the medicine they provide are blessings from God. Luke, the disciple, was also a physician.

But we must not put doctors and medicine in the place of God or expect miracles from them without involving God. 

Jeremiah 8:22 asks, “Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wounds of my people?” Their problem was that they consulted the wrong spiritual sources, choosing false prophets over God’s Word.

God’s Word, according to our text, is the right dose of daily medicine we need for good health and divine healing. 

We live in a fallen world, and many things can make us sick, but remember Isaiah 53:5: by “his stripes” we are healed! Not that we will be healed, but we are already healed—the provision for healing was made before we ever needed it, if we take the right dose of the Word in faith daily.

It does exactly what it promises!

As believers, this is the time to manifest the truth of God’s Word. We need doctors, but that should never diminish the power of God’s Word and the blood of Jesus.

God gave us leaves for medicine to heal the nations according to Revelation 22:2, and in 2 Kings 20:7, He used ointment from figs. 

He provided natural remedies, herbs, plants, and more to help us when we need them. Yet many would rather spend large sums to feel better.

From Jesus’ ministry, we see healing is good! It’s the right of everyone, especially believers. Dr. Luke the physician in Colossians 4:14 may not have dispensed prescriptions like today’s doctors, but he treated people’s ailments using the medicines and treatments of his day, combined with the Word of God.

Taking care of our health is important. Taking prescribed medicine is also good, but never at the expense of the Word and Spirit of God, which can heal us without any side effects.

Take your medicine! Taking the right dosage of God’s Word daily will save us a lot of money. God heals—the doctor takes the fee. God’s hands always heal, as Job 5:18 says.

REFLECTION QUESTIONS 

-         Who do you turn to first when you’re sick—God or the doctor? 

-         How can you make God’s Word a regular part of your health routine? 

-         Do you trust medicine more than God’s ability to heal? 

-         How can you balance getting medical treatment and trusting God for healing?

PRAYER: Lord, my healer, help me to always depend on you for healing, as you promised healing is my bread and portion. Help me to meditate on the right dose of your Word daily, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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