Will God Enable What You Disable?

God’s will is good health but we have to choose to do His will or we are undoing it.

“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
3 John 2 KJV

Webster’s defines health as physical and mental well-being; freedom from disease, pain, or defect; normalcy of physical and mental functions and soundness.

God created our bodies to heal themselves and thank Him for that! He wants us well, to be well and do well just like any good Father desires for His children. So if good health His will why are so many unwell? One of the main reasons is because we need to learn to cooperate and take care of ourselves. Making poor health choices is rebelling against God’s will. Our body is His temple and He doesn’t want it open to destructive elements or neglected by lack of maintenance.

He is so serious about us being in good condition that He sent His only Son Jesus to die to redeem us from the curse of sickness. In the light of that if we do things that we know cause poor health then we mock God’s Son and His sacrifice. Destroying our mind and body and then asking God to fix it is ignorant. It’s like driving down an icy road at ninety-nine miles per and praying that we don’t wreck. You will crash and it’s not God’s fault!

And the same is true with your health, if you stay on the wrong road you will end up in the Hospital. God is merciful but He wants to help us change our ways so that He can change our lives. When your “sin” causes you to reap the consequences of the curse you can go to God and He wants to heal you but you will probably need to “repent.” That means to change your mind and go the other way because if you keep going down the wrong road and wrecking your health the answer is not to keep praying for God to heal you the answer is to turn around and find another way.

The same is true in every area mentally, physically, financially, relationally – we can’t expect to be rich if we’re making poor choices. If we’re bad stewards of our bodies and believe God will take up the slack and deliver us from the consequences then we’re dumb and deceived and that’s really the root of the problem. If we want to be healthy first we will need to stop being stupid and destroying our bodies. God is ready, willing and able to do miracles but we can’t expect Him “make exceptions” for us and enable us to be irresponsible and not have to deal with any consequences. That would be like an alcoholic kid going to his father and saying, “I know you love me so give me a lifetime supply of liquor and make sure I don’t get in any trouble, but if I do make sure to come and bail me out quick so I can get back to drinking!” This is exactly how many people are with their health and they want miracles but the main miracle that God wants to provide is the power to change our destructive habits.

If we cooperate with God we will operate in His power, and if we don’t we won’t. If we choose His ways we will walk in His will, and if we don’t we won’t. If we take care of our bodies God will help us, and if we don’t He won’t. Because why should He do for us what we are unwilling to at least try to do for ourselves?

John 5:1-15
5 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. 5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"

7 The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me."

8 Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your bed and walk." 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.

And that day was the Sabbath. 10 The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

11 He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, 'Take up your bed and walk.'"

12 Then they asked him, "Who is the Man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?" 13 But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place. 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you."

15 The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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John 8:1-12
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?" 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.

7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, "Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?"

11 She said, "No one, Lord."

And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."

12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."
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PIE90 Scripture:

John 5:11, 14
11 He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, 'Take up your bed and walk.'"…
... 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you."