Living with an illness that just will not go away will affect the soul as much as the body. The words in these verses are reassuring. The Lord Jesus will protect. The Lord will preserve life. The Lord Jesus will sustain while on a sick bed. God will restore him from his bed of illness. Yet, the disclaimer in the psalm is the recipient of the Lord’s affection will have regard for the weak.
Many will experience this in this life. However, death befalls us all. Will I see the recurring headache go away for good? Or is its reality in the forever of Psalm 37:28-29? “For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. They will be protected forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off; the righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.”
And only found in Apostle Paul’s immortality clothing? “For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” (1 Corinthians 15:53-54)
David’s reaction to the uncertainty of an illness is revealed in the coming BDBDs.
