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前段时间，我和一个朋友聊天，他正在处理许多健康问题。在他即将接受另一个大手术时，他说，虽然他对自己的健康感到焦虑，不想死，但他不需要害怕生病或死亡。我问为什么——他说他知道无论发生什么，神都在掌控之中。

一个患病多年的女人，战战兢兢地靠近耶稣。然后她摸了摸耶稣的衣裳䍁子，立即得到了医治！虽然她不敢说出自己做的事，但耶稣坚固她说，她的信使她痊愈了。

一位父亲的女儿快要死了，他跪在耶稣的脚前，为他女儿的生命祈求。他害怕失去女儿——当他听说她已经死了，他更加害怕了。但耶稣向他保证，她会好起来的。祂说：“只要信，她就会痊愈”。

我们都会以这样或那样的方式惧怕疾病和死亡。但当我们看到这些严峻的现实时，我们需要通过耶稣为我们做出的牺牲和神对我们的爱来看待它们。疾病和死亡在主再来之前不会消失，但我们不需要像不知道神对我们的爱那样害怕它们。

I was talking to a friend a while back who was dealing with many health concerns. As he was about to undergo another major surgery, he said that while he was anxious about his health and didn’t want to die, he wasn’t necessarily afraid of being sick or dying. I asked why—and he said he knew that whatever happened, God was in control.

A trembling woman who had been sick for many years approached Jesus. Then she touched the edge of his cloak and was immediately healed! While she was afraid to speak up about what she had done, Jesus assured her that her faith in him had made her well.

A father whose daughter was dying fell at Jesus’ feet begging for his daughter’s life. He was afraid to lose her—and even more afraid when he heard that she was dead. But Jesus assured him that she would be fine. “Just believe,” he said, “and she will be healed.”

Sickness and death are things that we all fear in one way or another. But as we look at these grim realities, we need to see them through the lens of Jesus’ sacrifice for us and God’s love for us. Sickness and death won’t go away until the Lord’s return, but we don’t need to fear them as we would if we did not know about God’s love for us.