God Allows Sickness but Jesus Healed

Nothing happens without God's permission. God is simply God. He is sovereign.

God allows genocide, rape and human trafficking. Everything that is evil is permitted by God. This also includes cancer, depression, psychosis, blindness and coronavirus.

Should we passively accept something because God has allowed it?

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. Jn 10:10 NKJV

God allows everything, but how should we respond to evil?

Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Especially sin.

But not only sin is evil. Sickness is also evil. In the beginning there was no sin and no sickness. It was only as a result of Adam and Eve's first sin that illness and death came into the world.

Jesus always treated illness as an enemy. He came to conquer sin and also to abolish the consequences of sin. A clear sign that he also wanted to abolish illness was the many healings he performed with authority.

And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. Acts 10:38 NLT

God sovereignly allows sickness, genocide, domestic violence, bullying and human trafficking, but Jesus as a man aggressively resisted all kinds of sickness, cruelty and hypocrisy.

Why this contradiction?

Jesus is simply God's eternal Son.

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!” Jn 14:6–7 NLT

Jesus is the perfect representation of God's character.

God is sovereign, but he has given people the task of ruling this world.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Gen 1:28 NIV

But then people went wrong and handed their authority over to the devil.
That is why the devil is called “the god of this world”.
Jesus came as a man to take back this dominion from the devil.

Adam handed over his authority to the devil.
Jesus was the last Adam who lived without sin and took back this authority.

Then Jesus said to his disciples and to us.

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Mt 28:18 NIV

Authority implies not only power, but also legitimate authority.

Then he commissioned his disciples to exercise this authority as his representatives in the world.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Mt 28:19–20 NIV

Some people only want this assignment to apply to the apostles, but the apostles died in the first century.

Jesus said: “I am with you always, to the end of the age." Then this commission is for us.
The end of the age has not yet come.