Is sickness part of the cross we must carry? | Two Minute Daily Devotional
I want to tell you, Jesus commanded us to both preach the Gospel AND heal the sick (Luke 9&10). These two are inseparable. The healing of the sick is the demonstration of the Gospel – see Matthew 9:6 where Jesus said to the onlookers, ‘But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins.’ He said to the sick of the palsy, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk.’
Q. Isn’t sickness part of the cross we must carry?
A. The cross that Jesus carried was not sickness but rejection, torture and death! The cross He asked us to carry is not sickness, but the persecution, hardship…
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