As a result of the fall, the bodies of human beings stopped working as they were designed to by God and began to suffer pain, sickness and ultimately death. God dealt with the ultimate consequence of death by sending His Son to die on the cross, that we might have eternal life with Him. However, He also sometimes chooses to intervene in the lives of human beings by bringing healing to them in the here and now. This healing is a gift of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:9) and is a foretaste of an eternity without any pain or sickness when the Lord Jesus initiates His kingdom on His return (Revelation 21:3-4). It is worth noting that many people are not healed by God who could be (Luke 4:27), and that any healing is temporary and incomplete, as all die in the end. Our great hope in the Gospel is that in the new creation all those who have been saved by Jesus will have new resurrection bodies which will never get sick or suffer pain (1 Corinthians 15:1-58).
