Divine Health: Focus On Your Spirit, Not On Your Body

It is written, “ The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?” (Mishlei/Proverbs 18:14).

The former quote is from the Ketubim/Ketuvim or writings of the ancient Hebrew elders. Among the Bible believers of today, this Old Testament quotation is often overlooked despite the fact that it is one of the truths regarding good health based on a divine perspective. Let’s consider the reality of a healthy life, according to the Godhead.

Sickness, Disease and Infirmity: The True Origin

Human beings often fear to admit their shortcomings. As well, they often do not see that the many human weaknesses they endure are the direct result of what some thinkers have called “stinking thinking”. How we think is a determinant of what takes place in our lives. This is also true when we consider the reality of sickness, disease and other forms of infirmity seen in society today. Truly, “as he [man] thinketh in his heart, so is he…”

Prior to the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, it is recorded in the Torah that everything that the living God made was quote, good, unquote. That everything was good is also testified to in the Torah using the repeated statement that Yahweh, “saw” that it was good. From this we learn more about the divine perspective: when God sees into the temporal realm, what does He like to see when He looks at anything? Preferably, He likes to see His Spiritual signature upon His creation. This is the signature of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit that bears only “good” fruit.

It is written, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Bereshit/Genesis 2:17). This verse is indicative of the cause of death: knowledge that is tainted with evil. Since God created everything good, it remains to be deduced logically, that since sickness, disease and infirmity are not the most pleasant states of mind (and often lead to death), the advent of these things are all part of the death state of man. This occurred after his and her fall in the Garden of Eden.

Yahweh’s Perspective on Sickness, Disease and Infirmity

During the initial stages of my spiritual journey following the way of Yeshua (Jesus), I recall one of the things that the Spirit of God taught me about deformities in man. I had been reading the book of Wayikra/Leviticus and made an attempt to comprehend the wisdom in the following passage: “Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God” (Wayikra/Leviticus 21:17-21).

In the commands given to Yisrael, deformed persons were practically discriminated against when it came to doing the work of Levites. I wondered, “why?” After a short period of time, it suddenly entered into my spirit that these deformities were never a reflection of the original “good” creation of God. And since the Levitic priesthood was intended to be a reflection of divine consecration, God wanted to be seen as who He truly is: the originator of all that is good in the spiritual and natural realm. From this, I became further aware that the belief in the spiritual origins of sickness, disease and infirmity, something I had often heard from my elders, growing up in my village as a child, was actually very true.

Further to my initial “revelation” about disease, I later studied the Book of the patriarch Yob (Job). From this book I learned of one of the most explicit accounts of how, not just tainted knowledge— the very language of Satan and every one of his subordinates—but Satan’s direct requisitions of God are the true sources of every physical affliction that ails mankind today. In fact, from the Book of Yob, I became aware that sickness, disease and infirmity are regulated by God, in order to prove that outside of His will, they cannot be allowed to persist or even exist.

The Human Spirit is the Control Center of Health

Again, it is written, “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?” (Mishlei/Proverbs 18:14). This wise saying confirms that a human being’s spirit has the capacity to literally uphold an individual during a time of infirmity or weakness. Since sickness and disease are merely milder states of the full-blown effects of the spirit of death, it stands to reason that the human spirit is able to support a person who has been weakened by sickness or disease.

Today’s health logic primarily consists of a focus on supplements and what the scientific world calls medicine. As well, there is significant focus on exercise and diets of all sorts. Despite these, protocols such as vaccination do not seem to be able to stem the tide of infectious diseases that recurringly make their way into the communities of the globe. Perhaps it is time to boldly put secular medical philosophy where it belongs: on the chopping block of the Godhead. Perhaps, as a result of this, we may learn a thing or two about why the famed woman “diseased with an issue of blood” (Matityahu/Matthew 9:20) and “which had spent all her living upon physicians” (Luke 8:43) was not only left broke, but unhealed, until her contact with divine energy set her free.

Every human being has a spirit. Based on Mishlei/Proverbs 18:14, of the difficult things to bear in life, a wounded or breached human spirit is definitely one of them. This is to say that since the human spirit is the part of man that knows—the human hard drive that holds all acquired truth—a breach in this vital part of the human being renders him or her susceptible to invasions of all sorts, whether this be in the area of sickness or disease, or some other predicament.

The Conclusion: Fill Your Spirit and not your Mouth

It may seem very extreme to a generation that is used to reaching for the medicine bottle or even rushing to the local physician. But the advice to fill your human spirit with God’s perspectives on sickness and disease, this will do much more than spending your hard earned currency on what can only “affect” the symptoms of the flesh.

Just consider that the ancient Yisraelites were told, “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord [Yahweh] thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord [Yahweh] that healeth thee” (Shemot/Exodus 15:26). No matter how much man tries to deal with sickness and disease according to his own understanding, only Yahweh holds the real answer to freedom from disease. After all, He made the one who brings it on. Amen (and so shall it be).