Disease

John 11:1-4    New English Translation

The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived. 2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 So the sisters sent a message[d] to Jesus, “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.” 4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

Sickness does not necessarily mean an issue direct from sin

Yet we must admit that much of it actually does

So we cannot attribute all sickness to natural reason

Putting the car before the horse to be factually crushed

Many are exposed to the virus, but all will not catch it

At times the strong catch it and not the physically weak

So only the tolerance of God will appropriate conditions

And whatever comes around seems provided for the meek

Bacillus alone cannot cause T.B., conditions have to be favorable

And so with all who sin sexually will not get burned with aids

But chances improve drastically if one keeps on indulging

And so it goes in life for sure as somewhere the price is paid

Jan Wienen