"Do we
sufficiently praise God for guarding us from disease? I am afraid that his
preserving care is often forgotten. Men will go thirty or forty years almost
without an illness, and forget the Lord in consequence. That which should
secure gratitude creates indifference. When we have been ill we come up to the
house of the Lord and desire to return thanks because of our recovery; ought we
not to give thanks when we are
not ill, and do not need to be recovered? Should it not be to you healthy folk
a daily cause of gratitude to God that he keeps away those pains which would
keep you awake all night, and wards off those sicknesses which would cause your
beauty to consume away like the moth?…
Oh, come let us sing unto Jehovah who hath said,—“I am the Lord that healeth thee” (Exodus 15:26). Do not attribute to secondary means that which ought to be ascribed to God alone. His fresh air, and warm sun, or bracing wind, and refreshing showers do more for our healing than we dream of, or if medicine be used, it is he who gives virtue to the drugs, and so by his own Almighty hand works out our cure. As one who has felt his restoring hand, I will personally sing unto him who is the health of my countenance and my God.”
— Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh, come let us sing unto Jehovah who hath said,—“I am the Lord that healeth thee” (Exodus 15:26). Do not attribute to secondary means that which ought to be ascribed to God alone. His fresh air, and warm sun, or bracing wind, and refreshing showers do more for our healing than we dream of, or if medicine be used, it is he who gives virtue to the drugs, and so by his own Almighty hand works out our cure. As one who has felt his restoring hand, I will personally sing unto him who is the health of my countenance and my God.”
— Charles H. Spurgeon
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