Ephesians 2:8-9English Standard Version (ESV)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Yes, it's true that I have been saved by grace thru faith... and verbally saying that is so, is boasting???
That's hilarious! Agreeing with what God says about me is not boasting... no, it's setting myself in agreement with Him because He is right and to be in opposition to what He says is wrong.
I venture to say that the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is health, with the exception of sickness. Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has. - Charles Spurgeon
First off, that's no scriptural... God sent His written Wiord and the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ to teach His people, not sickness.
But, if you really believe this... then you should go see if you can get some samples of malaria or the flu or something so you can ingest them, get sick, and be blessed by "god" who would be the god of this world that comes to kill, steal, and destroy (John 10:10)
It's sad that some believe sickness is a good thing... if that's true than go get sick and DO NOT go to the doctor if you think it's God's will for you to be sick because they would be rebellion against the will of God... if in fact you believe sickness is good and useful.
Here's what you should be paying attention to... what God said Jesus did for you...
Matthew 8:17
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Isaiah 53:4, 5
Jesus has carried our grief (pain, anxiety, calamity, disease, sickness), and carried our sorrows (anguish, affliction, feelings of pain, sadness and sorrow): yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted....but He was wounded (to wound, to break, be slain or killed) for our transgressions, He was bruised (crush, destroy, oppress, to collapse) for our iniquities: the punishment (violence, rebuke) of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. (He took our wounds, so we could take his wholeness & health in every area of life)
thanks be to God for my own sicknesses, which cause me to depend on Him more!
thank Him who put trust in my heart, and who builds it also with dependence!
whether it is chastening, by which i know He loves me, or it is a tutor to effectively build humility in my character, praise God under whose eye all things come to pass!
Sounds like you could really be blessed with some AIDs, or maybe some Herpes... if being sick is such a blessing, why not go out and get some serious disease like maybe some cancer???
Nothing like being blessed with sickness and disease from satan... er, I mean from whatever god it is you are referring to... which is obviously NOT the God of the Bible.