Is health really the most important thing, and as long as you’re healthy you’re fine? The Bible tells us that the most important commandment is to “Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. And the second is like unto it, to love thy neighbor as thyself.” […]
In the Psalms we read over and over again how David’s problems and aflictions brought him closer to God. In other words, they worked together for good for him. We read, “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.” “It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.” […]
In the book of Job, we read how his losses and affliction led him to the realization that God is good, and no matter what happens in our life, God will bring good from it if we can continue to love and trust Him. […]
Therefore, affliction, sickness, troubles, pain, and heartache can work for our ultimate good if we draw nigh to God through them.
So, from the Bible we see that our relationship with God and others, not our health, is what is most important. Therefore, friends, it behooves us to love God and one another, and to bear our suffering and afflictions bravely and let them draw us closer to Jesus. —Dennis Edwards [1]
When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
When we reach the end of our hoarded resources,
Our Father's full giving has only begun. —Annie Johnson Flint
[1] Anchor Is Health the Most Important Thing?
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