When God heals us or a loved one from a life-threatening physical illness, we should properly represent what God has done:
Philippians 2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. 26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. 27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God *had mercy* on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
The apostle Paul teaches us here that we are to relate to others that God *has had mercy* on the one who was “sick nigh unto death” and on those who love him by not allowing that loved one to die.
It is right and biblical for us to speak of God as being *merciful* whenever He graciously chooses to grant healing from life-threatening conditions!
Moreover, it is right and biblical for us to pray that God would be *merciful* to those who are seriously ill.
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