CAUSES OF SICKNESS
Ultimately sickness comes from the fallen
condition of the world. We cannot always know
the causes of specific sickness. However many
diseases result from bad life style choices,
specific sins and from spiritual and
emotional conditions.
Contemporary medicine has done
much research into the relationship between
various emotions and disease. Every emotion
produces a chemical response in the body. It
is known that joy for example causes the body
to produces disease-fighting endorphins.
Similarly depression lowers resistance
disease. Stress causes the body to secrete
excess cortisone, which over time may damage
the heart veins and arteries. Certain fears
produce an adverse effect on the lungs and so
on.
Grief, sorrow and the hurts of
life can break our hearts, and weaken our
immune system so that we become more
vulnerable cancer and immune deficiency
diseases. (For a fuller treatment of this see
“ A More Excellent Way - The Spiritual
Roots of Disease” by Pastor Henry Wright
Whatever the causes of
disease, the scriptures and the example and
teaching of Jesus show that it is God’s
will to heal disease. Believers should
rightly turn to the Lord to remove their
sickness and to help them discern and remove
the factors that cause the disease in the
first place. Medical science is part of
humanity's fight to resist disease. Seeking
God for healing does not exclude the use of
medicine.
