Reading about spirits causing sickness, once again, the questions outnumber the answers…
In the book of Mark, one-fourth of the healings have to do with evil spirits. Did the lack of modern medicine make people who lived in that era more likely to blame spirits because they didn’t have any other reasonable explanation for certain diseases, or was it that they were more in touch with the reality of how the spiritual world intersects with the natural one?
I’m curious as to what the current statistic on doctors’ estimates of psychosomatic illnesses is, too. 50% seems pretty high! Also, if an illness is spiritually caused, it’s not actually psychosomatic (all in the person’s head), is it? There’s an actual oppression there, but the cause is beyond the doctor’s scope of practice.
Interesting things to ponder, along with this: when we’re sick, does this mean we need to clean house (in a spiritual sense) before we look to medicine for a cure? No, I think that may be going a little bit far. A better answer would probably be: not always.
My takeaway, though, is to be open to the fact that there are spiritual dynamics all around me that I can’t see with my eyes. I’ve had the experience of totally missing what someone has said to me because I so totally didn’t expect those words to come out of their mouth just then, and it’s the same – unless I’m prepared for the possibility of a spiritual cause behind something, odds are I’ll miss it entirely.
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