"So Moses made
a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten
anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived."
- Numbers
21:9
You may have said this
before "I know that God is my healer. But why is this sickness and pain
still in my body?” If you have been looking at your sickness and pain all this
while, stop looking at yourself
and start looking at Jesus. Did He or did He not take upon Himself your
sickness and pain?
God’s Word declares, “Yet He Himself
bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains…” (Isaiah 53:4, HCSB) Since Jesus has already taken your
sickness and pain at the cross, then He cannot “untake” them. Even if you find
it hard to believe that Jesus has paid for your healing, especially when the
pain is unbearable, the truth is that it is still paid for. It is a finished
work!
God is not saying that your sickness does not
exist, nor is He asking you to pretend that it is not there. People like saying
that "My enemy is sick" in the name of making positive confessions.If
the issue is that your enemy is sick then you are you feeling the pains. God is
asking you to look away from the sickness, painful as it may be, and look to
the truth that it has already been judged at the cross in the body of His Son.
Once, while still in the wilderness, the children
of Israel were bitten by deadly desert serpents. The serpents were real. The
bites were painful and deadly. So God told Moses to point the people to the
bronze serpent put on a pole—a picture of the cross. (John 3:14) Bronze
signifies judgment. In other words, the serpent—their problem—was already
judged at the cross.
Those who kept their eyes on the bronze serpent
lived. Those who focused on their wounds died. So stop looking at your
sickness. Instead, look to the cross and see your sickness already judged in
the body of Jesus. Surely He has borne your sicknesses and carried your pains!
That is the truth of God’s Word. And His Word supersedes natural facts. The devil
is just trying to tell you Jesus did not finish his work on earth.
The pain is a fact but your healing is a truth. A truth that has been
settled over two thousand years ago on the cross of Calvary. Keep your eyes on
Jesus and declare that He is your health. The scriptures say that because “as He is,
so also
are we in this world” – 1 John 4:17
Dearest, you let natural facts rule or establish
God’s truths over your problem by what you choose to focus on. So decide today
not to focus on the facts concerning your problem. Instead, establish the truth
of God’s Word and Christ’s finished work over your problem—and live!
