708 The Spiritual Man
you have strengthened me”’ (10.18-19). Once more we see how God
supplies power to man’s body.
The Lord’s children today ought to know that He doe care for
their body. God is not only strength to our spirit He is equally so to
our body. Even in the Old Testament time when grace was not
manifested as much as it is today the saints experienced God as
strength to their outer flesh Can today’s blessing be less than theirs?
We should experience at least the same divine invigorating power as
they did. If we are uninformed as to the riches of God, we perhaps
may restrict them to what concerns our spirit. But those who have
faith will not limit His life and power to the spirit by neglecting their
application to the body.
We wish to underscore the fact that God’s life is adequate not
only to heal sickness but also to preserve us strong and healthy. God
as our might enables us to overcome both illness and weakness. He
does not heal so that we may live afterwards by our natural energy;
He is to be energy to our body that we may live by Him and find
power for all His service. When the Israelites left Egypt God
promised them by saying, “If you will diligently hearken to the voice
of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give
heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none
of the diseases upon you which I put upon the Egyptians; for I am the
Lord, your healer” (Ex.15.26). Later we find this promise wholly
fulfilled as noted in Psalm 105: “there was not one feeble person
among his tribes” (v.37 ASV). Let us hence understand that divine
healing includes both God’s curing our sicknesses and His
withholding diseases from us that we may remain hardy. If we are
totally yielded to God, resisting His will in nothing but believingly
receiving His life as strength to our body, we shall yet prove the fact
that Jehovah heals.