In the natural or physical world, our bodies can get sick when it loses ability to fight germs or bacteria that produces diseases. God has empowered the physician through learning to produce drugs with particular characteristics to heal certain diseases. The patience who sees the doctor and the dispenser is given drugs or prescriptions targeted at particular illnesses. Upon buying them, the patient is supposed to take those drugs to fight the bacteria or germs causing the illness.
In other instances, the doctor tells the patient if symptoms show, he should take particular drugs of the set. In the same way, the word of God is drug to whoever who is a child of God. Proverbs 4:20-22 (NKJV) urges, “My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart; For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.”
Just as a patient must be committed to taking his drugs, the Christian must also be disciplined and remain faithful to studying the Word of God to bring him spiritual healing. That is why the scripture said ‘give attention to my words’. If the patient does not take his drugs, he cannot blame the doctor or provide excuses when his sickness gets worse. Bible says, ‘faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God’ (Romans 10:17).
It suggests that, whenever we hear the word of God, we must give ear to it because the bible explains that our faith in God comes by hearing the Word of God. It is what you hear that transforms or destroys you. For instance, if you are sick but the Word of God says, ‘I am the Lord that heals you’. Then the sufferer now knows that, his God heals. Then he begins to assure himself and begins to seek that God properly- the promises in the Word that can bring him healing.
Also the word of God says ‘And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee’. Here, the word of God is giving us the conditions to be well. It says, we should serve Him. God is the Almighty so when we serve Him, he is capable of doing anything for us. It is an error to serve God and not eat in peace. So one of the first signs of God’s blessings is that, the believer is able to have his peace and eat for his soul to be satisfied. Added to this He makes you healthy. A Christian must not be sick therefore. The believer needs strength to enjoy his meals. Continued health is a sign that the believer’s God is alive. He sees his God in the testimony of good health.
Like the patient’s drug, we are admonished to keep our eyes on the word of God to sustain our healing. The patient is warned to keep his drugs from children. In the same way, we have to hide the word of God in our hearts. Anything that is in our hearts is part of us and becomes difficult to lose it. If the patient follows his drug prescriptions, he should see improvement in his health and with consistency, he should recover completely.
To keep the hedge of protection over our health, we have to eat foods that promotes good health. If we default in the process, we have to go to the spiritual physician that is the word of God which is in effect healing to our bodies. As we get healthy and remain healthy, we position ourselves to be good representatives of the hedge of protection.
