The Causeless Curse

Proverbs 26:2:
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

This wonderful verse helps you understand that you are not subject to witch curses (see also Numbers 23:23), so stop trying to find out what the local witches are up to and start trying to find out what the Holy Spirit is up to and cooperate with that! 

There is no just cause for the curse of sickness to be on a believer. God calls sickness a curse for breaking the Law in Deuteronomy 28:15-68.  Jesus’ blood atoned for every time you have ever broken the Law (or ever will break it).  Therefore, there is no cause for the curse of sickness, so it should not alight on you.  It should just fly off to somewhere else like a flitting sparrow.

When you see the verse this way, it brings freedom.  However, I have seen Christians use this verse in a way that leads to bondage instead.  The bondage version sounds like something Job’s “comforters” would say: “Well, we know that a curse will not alight without a cause, so therefore, your sickness shows that there must be a cause.  You opened some kind of door to it by sinning somehow.  You’d better find out what your sins are that opened that door to the devil so that there will be no more cause for a curse to be on you.”

This version would have been popular in Galatia before Paul corrected the Galatians.  Instead of bringing freedom, it puts everything back on YOU, as dead religious tradition always does.  Now you (supposedly) must get introspective, go on a witch hunt for secret sin, and do this while feeling so miserable you might not want to get out of bed if you don’t have to!

Here in a nutshell is what this religious mindset really says: “You DESERVE this sickness.  You’ve gotten the curse that was coming to you, so you had best repent of whatever you were doing that brought it on!”  That is hardly good news.  It can’t be THE “good news” because it isn’t what Jesus went about teaching!  I don’t read about Him telling people, “You DESERVE this curse of sickness!  See Me later when you figure out what your sin is and get it out of your life!”  If He didn’t do it then, He won’t do it today.  (He may warn you to sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you, though (John 5:14)!)

The truth is that based on the Law, you DO deserve to get sick, but Jesus came and took the sickness and pain that you deserved Himself to release you from having to suffer them for your sin.  There is no need for you to suffer sickness and pain for your sin when Jesus already suffered sickness and pain for your sin!  THAT is the good news!  The reason that the curse is causeless for you as a believer is that the ransom price has been paid, and therefore there is no more ransom left for YOU to pay in your own body!