"When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him. When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
"He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases."
Jesus is able and willing to restore us physically (our diseases) and spiritually (our infirmities). God wants to liberate us from bondage of sin and deliver us to His kingdom where there is no spiritual & physical suffering.
This made me question: Do you think most physical illnesses are correlated to spiritual illness? Am I not interpreting this passage correctly?
1 comment:
thank you, ji, for an insightful reflection. in answer to your question, i think that some physical illnesses have spiritual causes, but not all of them.
nevertheless, we are all plagued in varying degrees with physical illness or spiritual infirmity, or a combination of both.
you are so right to recognize that Jesus has the ability and willingness to restore us both physically and spiritually.
what was the result of Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law? "she got up and began to wait on Him".
in other words, she was enabled and strengthened by Jesus's healing to serve others.
when we are physically unwell, it is difficult to serve others. when we are spiritually unwell, it is impossible. more often than not, we are too consumed with our own suffering and our own needs to consider the needs of anyone else.
Jesus's "healing" allows us to have the mindset and attitude to "wait upon others".
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