DAY NINE

“Praise the Lord, O my soul,

and forget not all His benefits –

who forgives all your sins

and heals all your diseases.”

Psalm 103:1,2

COMMENT

I want you to read the same Scripture again today. Part of God’s benefits to you is the healing of your body.  You may think that healing must be something supernatural, but have you ever thought that God has put in your body the power to heal itself?  If you eat healthy food and live a healthy lifestyle, your body will fix what has gone wrong.  Broken bones knit, cuts and grazes heal, and your body fights off disease and kills bacteria and you recover from the illness.  Sometimes God intervenes with a miracle when the disease overwhelms your body, and you pray for healing.  Jesus died on the cross so that you will have a completely new body when you go to be with Him in glory.  So, whether you are healed in this body or not, you will live with God forever in a body that can never get sick or die again.

PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING

God’s gift of healing isn’t only a reason to praise Him, but also a hope that you can carry in your heart every day.  No matter what you go through in this life, praise God that disease and death will not have the final say, for you will be with the Lord forever in a perfect body just like Jesus’ body.