Objection: The Lord Puts Us on Our Backs That He May Teach Us to Look Up
No, God gives us His WORD and His SPIRIT that He may teach us to look up! That is painless, unlike being bedridden. If you are on your back, you should look up what the Bible says about healing!
Jesus made it clear that the Father would send the Holy Spirit, not a spirit of infirmity, to teach us ALL THINGS (John 14:26). So there is NO “thing” left for sickness or accidents to teach us, including teaching us to look up.
Colossians 3:1 tells us to seek the things that are above, not the things that are on the earth. Hebrews 12:2 exhorts us to look to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith (who is already “up” in heaven as well as in believers). Jesus, our Example, didn’t have to be sick to look up to heaven before telling a deaf person’s ears to be opened in Mark 7:32-37. He didn’t have to be flat on His back to look up to heaven before He multiplied the loaves and fishes in Mark 6:41 and Luke 9:16. Jesus had a man with eye trouble look up while he was getting healed, not while he was getting sick, in Mark 8:22-25. The disciples did not have to have broken backs when they looked up after Jesus had ascended in Acts 1:10. Stephen was not sick with a disease when he looked up and saw Jesus standing at God’s right hand in Acts 7:55-56.
So clearly, when you look up what Scripture says, the idea that God has to put you on your back to get you to look up has no traction.
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