Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, March 31 (41:3)
“The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness” ―Psalms 41:3.
SICKNESS is one of the many consequences of sin. Believers’ bodies are as subject to illnesses as those of the unsaved, because we are still waiting for the redemption of the body (Rom. 8:23), which we shall receive at our Lord’s return (Phil. 3:20, 21). But we are encouraged to pray for physical health (James 5:16), and when granted, whether with or without means such as medicines, and so forth, we should recognize all as coming from God Himself.
When tempted to think that God has forgotten and that we have very little to praise Him for, let us consider how sinful and disobedient we have often been and how patiently He has borne with us. As we reflect on these things, we will have a new conception of His love and grace.
—Isaac Watts.