Objection: If God Wanted Us to Enjoy Perfect Health NOW, He Would Have Already Given Us Immortal Bodies

In the days of the Wright brothers, people said that if God wanted man to fly, He would have given him wings.  That is similar to what the wrong brothers who object to divine healing say with this objection.

By this objector’s reasoning, if God wanted us to live sin-free lives now, He would have already given us perfect immortal bodies so that the flesh would never be a hindrance again.  Therefore, it must supposedly be God’s will for you to be a slave to SOME sins in this lifetime.  Do you see how silly this argument is?

In this life, the just live by FAITH (Habakkuk 2:4 and elsewhere).  When you get your immortal body, you will cease to live by faith in the area of healing because you will never need healing.  For now, you must believe in and receive the inheritance that God’s grace has provided.  You will have to put your flesh under until Jesus returns.  That is how God has structured things, and you will have to forward complaints to Him (not that you should) if you don’t like His arrangement.

This objection sounds cute, but there is a sinister undertone that God does NOT want us to enjoy perfect health NOW.  In other words, He does NOT will that we prosper and be in health even as our souls prosper (3 John 2) and He will NOT heal all our diseases (Psalm 103:3) or be The Lord Who Heals You (Exodus 15:26) because the fact that your body is mortal “proves” that He didn’t mean everything else that He said about healing.

Why did Jesus go about healing all who were under the devil’s cruel oppression (Acts 10:38) if God did NOT want everyone to enjoy perfect health now?  Why did He move through Peter to heal the crippled beggar and allow Peter to proclaim that the faith which is by Him gave the man perfect soundness (Acts 3:1-16)?  Why did God heal ALL the sick in the streets of Jerusalem (Acts 5:12-16) and ALL the sick on the island of Melita (Acts 28:8-9) if He did NOT want people to be healthy?  If He wanted people to be healthy THEN and not NOW, that is tantamount to saying that He has changed, which would negate Malachi 3:6 and James 1:17.

God does want us to enjoy perfect health now, and that’s why He has already given us JESUS!  It would be senseless for Jesus to bear OUR sicknesses and OUR pains (Isaiah 53:4) only to have God tell us that if He really wanted us healed, He would have given us immortal bodies.