bumping for later reading
Very nice.
But at the risk of tossing some cold water at an emotional time... (time to duck!)
Resignation is fine. Acceptance is fine. Surrendering to God’s will is fine.
But Jesus never said that disease is good for anybody. He never told the sick who came to him for healing that their disease was a blessing in disguise.
If disease were God’s will for someone, then every hospital and doctor treating that disease would be in rebellion against God’s will.
Jesus destroyed disease wherever he found it; he healed everybody, not just the deserving. Disease was an enemy, from the Enemy, and not sent by God.
Everybody has as much right to ask Jesus for healing today as they did in New Testament times.
And anything else about disease being some kind of ‘blessing’ is just rationalization (no matter how much it comforts the sufferer). The church as a better message
to bring.