Sound body and mind

Psalm 38:3 says "Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin." Webster's dictionary defines a sound body and mind as normal and healthy; not weak, diseased or impaired. Isn't that what we all want? Isn't that what Adam and Eve had before they sinned?

Most of us spend a lot of our excess time and money trying to achieve a sound body and mind. Should we also be looking beyond the physical for healing? When Jesus healed people, He often forgave their sin too. Could there be sin in our lives that we need to be healed of? Jeremiah 30:15 says:

"Why do you cry out over your wound, your pain that has no cure?
Because of your great guilt and many sins I have done these things to you." 

This Sunday we will be looking at Jeremiah 30:17:

"But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares."

God may bring sickness, but He also provides a way to be restored, or healed. That way is through His Son, Jesus Christ.