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 self and start looking at Jesus.        Did He or did He not take your sickness and pain?

God’s Word declares, “Surely He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains.” (Isaiah 53:4, YLT) If Jesus already took 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. He is asking you to look away from the sickness, painful as it may be, and look to the truth that it is already 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 sickness and carried your pain! That is the truth of God’s Word. And His Word supersedes natural facts.

My friend, you establish either natural facts or 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 at the cross over your problem — and live!
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