Your Spirit Isn’t Sick

If you’re battling illness, it is helpful to recognize the fact that it is only your body, not your spirit, that is sick.  The real you is a spirit being that will live forever.  You have a body.  But your spirit will live on (with the Lord) without your current body.  To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord for a believer (2 Corinthians 5:8), which this discussion assumes that you are.

It is very easy to identify yourself as “the sick” when your body is uncomfortable.  It is easy to forget that the real born-again you is a spirit being created after God in righteousness and true holiness (Ephesians 4:24).  In a very literal sense, “you” are not sick – your body is sick.

Lest you think that it is unbiblical to split yourself up that way, I am not asking you to think any differently than Paul did.  Paul said that he kept his body under (1 Corinthians 9:27).  So Paul did not identify himself as his body.  Rather he saw himself as master over his body, and so should you.

The key is to remember that the real you – who has authority over bodily illness – is not your sick body.  The REAL YOU can control what goes on in YOUR BODY.

See You Have Authority over Your Body for more on this topic.