God Is Not against Medicine
Unfortunately, extreme faith teachings have given the impression that God is against medicine. They have left us with the impression that God would like to replace all medical personnel with pastors. They left us with a feeling that to take medicine was sinful or unspiritual.
There was a time when many people were being healed through the faith revival. At that time, many ministers would not touch medicine. It was unheard of for a truly spiritual person to use medicine.
I heard of a church in which over forty-five people died because they refused to take medicine. There were little children who needed medication, but because of their parents’ belief in faith healing, they rejected all medicine for their children. Eventually, the pastor himself became ill but refused medication. By and by, he was brought to church in a wheel chair, still refusing medical help until he died.
This kind of thing throws the healing ministry into confusion. This is why many have turned away from the healing ministry. In spite of the confusion, you cannot discount the reality of God’s healing power.
We Don’t Understand Everything!
God is not trying to replace hospitals and doctors with pastors and evangelists. God gave the wisdom for medical science. The two streams of healing are ordained of God and are not contrary to each other. The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1: 24
Jesus comes to help you by being the power and the wisdom of God in your life. Christians become unbalanced when they just take the power of God and leave out the wisdom. You need both the power and the wisdom. Medical science can transplant hearts today and solve many problems. Many children would be dead from various diseases like malaria, convulsions, and measles if there were no medicines.
God has given us the wisdom to think and to have common sense. One time, Jesus told His disciples to go aside and rest awhile.
And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. Mark 6:31
Why did Jesus tell His disciples to rest? Because there are many diseases that come from not resting. It is common sense to rest when you need to. Jesus ministered to the sick but He did sensible and practical things too.
Accept that God Is Mysterious
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29
I cannot explain why divine healing takes place the way it does. The Bible says the secret things belong to the Lord but those that are revealed belong to us.
Again the Scriptures tell us that we look through a glass dimly. This means that when you look through a glass, you cannot see things clearly. It is not everything we know and we shouldn’t pretend to know everything because we do not. We definitely do not understand everything because we are looking through a glass.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12