Why Does God Allow Sickness?

One reason for sickness is that we are all sinners.  Sin in our bodies makes us naturally weaker.  God is perfect in every way and neither of the three of them ever gets sick.  But in our sin-weakness in our flesh we are more susceptible to diseases that travel from person to person.  When we get perfect bodies we will never again get any disease of any kind forever.

But we are weak sinners in our flesh.  One reason we get diseases is that some diseases are contagious and stay with the individual in our flesh perpetually.  It continues until we die.  There are several diseases of that nature.  Cancer does not kill.  It weakens certain organs so that the organs fail to function and quits.  So with some other diseases.  Not ever person gets those diseases.

Many of us get colds and we get over them.  We can get some diseases and take certain medicines and conquer that disease or diseases.  That's good.

One reason we get a certain disease is in what we eat.  We can eat non-nutritiously.  We can eat some foods that produce very little health.  Over time we can break down our healthy systems and become sick.

Sometimes sickness is to keep us humble and increase our faith.  That happened to Paul and many others.  Some sickness produces a heaviness and trial of our faith (I Peter 1:6, 7).

Some sicknesses produces a complete surrender of our will, as with Catherine Marshall, wife of a Chaplin of the U.S. Senate.  She became well.

Some sickness produces humility (II Cor. 12:7).  Some sickness is allowed to make us more perfect in our weakness (II Cor. 12:9).  Some sickness produces greater faith in God.  Sometimes God sends some sicknesses to bring a saint back to God (Psa. 119:67, 68).  Some sickness leads us to become stronger, stablished, strenghtened and settled (I Peter 5:10).

Praise God, the day is coming soon when we will be perfect in body and spirit.  That's when Jesus comes for us.  We will never become sick again.  Forever!