God's Kind of Life

The thief does not come but to kill, steal and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. ---John 10:10


Where does sickness or confusion, or calamity come from? I have heard, for years, God blamed for such events. Even Christians, because they couldn’t rationalize such events and knowing God was “sovereign” would tell us that God wanted to teach us and to make us pious or more “Christ-like.”

However, if we look in the Word, we definitely see that sickness, calamity and depression comes from the enemy and not from God. Jesus certainly didn’t get Christ-like through sickness and disease, so I don’t know why we should have to do it that way! Tragedies are a satanic force. God called it a curse in Deuteronomy 28:59-61. In Luke 13:16, Jesus called it a bondage. And by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Peter called it satanic oppression in Acts 10:38.

God doesn’t like sickness or catastrophe or anything else that would destroy His people. He is totally and completely against it. He has done, and is still doing everything in His power to get healing and health of mind and body back to His children.

The thief---the devil---is the one who comes to steal, kill and destroy. Jesus gives only abundant life. The word “abundant” in the original Greek means superabundance, excessive, overflowing, surplus, over and above and more than enough, just for starters. That sounds very positive to me. Imagine living a life that is full of success, divine health, and favor from all men!

Let’s take one strategy the devil uses on people, sickness. Sickness steals money, steals families; it steals homes. It steals everything it can steal. Sickness kills and destroys. The thief comes to kill, steal and destroy, and he’ll use any other method he can to make sure you don’t enjoy life, this side of heaven.

Jesus said, “I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” The word life in the Greek is “ZOE,” and it refers to life as God has it. Jesus was saying, “I have come that you might have the life of God.”

Was God ever sick? No! Sickness and disease don’t come from God; otherwise, Jesus would have given sickness to us as part of the “abundant life” package. Remember, Jesus was the will of God in action. But He didn’t’ come to bind us in chains of bondage and oppression. He came to set us free!

Confession: Jesus gives me abundant life—life as God has it. God doesn’t get sick, so I don’t allow sickness to stay in my body either. God’s divine health belongs to me! I will enjoy an over-abundance of life because Jesus declared it to me.