 | Too Busy Not to Pray, 20th Anniversary Edition- softcover By Bill Hybels |
When sick a Christian must take advantage of this situation to speak to God in prayer.
Man is an animal and being as such he is govern by his animalistic or survival instincts. He craves for food and pleasures and avoids pains. These animalistic instincts are necessary for survival. If we don’t avoid pains and unpleasant experiences and craves for foods and pleasant and pleasurable things, we are doomed to expire soon.
Man’s survival instincts however are at the service of the flesh and not of the spirit. Praying is a spiritual activity. In prayer, our soul communicates with God a spiritual being (i.e. as oppose to a material being.) In normal circumstance putting oneself in the presence of God is not easy because our instincts are on the way. They are just like nuisance to radio signals in telecommunications.
When a person is ill, his craving for food and other pleasures tend to die down. This produces a very good signal between man’s soul and God. It is like having a very good radio signal in telecommunication.
Because of this, we can feel God deeper, we can talk to God clearer and we can commune or feel like being with God better.
The next time that you are ill, take advantage of the situation. Pray hard. It works.
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