Objection: I Got a Debilitating Disease and Cried, “Why Me?” And the Lord Answered, “Why NOT You?”
This is the kind of complete idiocy you’d expect to encounter when you buy books in the “Spiritual” book section in chain stores. Someone will tell a story like this, and soon someone else will be claiming to have had the same encounter with the Lord in prayer. Someone else might have a disabled child and cry out, “Why Me?” and tell everyone that the Lord said, “Why NOT You?” (Or alternatively, that he asked the Lord to heal his handicapped child and He said, “No” as one particularly rancid poem claims.)
Can’t you just picture Jesus saying to the blind men who cried out to Him, Why SHOULDN’T you be blind? Give me one good reason!” Or picture Peter at the Beautiful Gate saying, “Why SHOULDN’T you be crippled?” You NEVER see the Lord asking anyone “Why NOT you?” and refusing to heal anyone.
Jesus has never changed (Hebrews 13:8). So what He never said in the Bible about healing, He will never say today about healing. When the leper questioned His will to heal, He didn’t say, “I WON’T. Why SHOULDN’T you have leprosy?” He affirmed “I will” and healed him (Matthew 8:2-4). That would be Jesus’ answer to you today.
The objector heard from AN EVIL SPIRIT claiming to be God. He didn’t hear from the real God who would never go against His own Word. Satan tries to manifest himself as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). He doesn’t say, “I’m the devil and I’m here to rip you off – why SHOULDN’T I keep stealing your health with that horrible illness?” He’ll plant some unbiblical thought in your head and try to make you think that God put it there. If you don’t know what the Word says, you’ll swallow his lie.
I can answer the original questions. “Why me?” Because sin corrupted the earth once Satan was allowed to become “the god of this world.” He should never have had that status, and he never would have had it if Adam hadn’t granted it to him. The story in John 9:1-7 proves that you cannot blame a condition on anyone’s particular sin. You have just encountered something that is not God’s will that Adam allowed to be here. “Why NOT me?” Because Jesus bore all your sicknesses for you, including the one in question. If Jesus took it and redeemed you from it, God doesn’t want you to have it. That’s WHY NOT YOU!
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