I am fairly convinced that God is more concerned with my spiritual life than my physical life. My spirit will continue, but my body will fade away. My body continues to deteriorate and will eventually die and return to the earth no matter how I pray, but my soul will live on into eternity. Will God answer prayers that may deliver me from physical illness or pain? He can, but if there is something greater for me to learn through it, or if there is a purpose or reason in God’s wisdom that I may never know nor see the effects of, then perhaps He wont. It would be supremely foolish and arrogant of me to believe that God must heal me and deliver me from any illness or pain because of an immature and incorrect reading of Scripture that forces God to be subject to any human understanding of the promises interpreted out of Scripture. Perhaps this view may seem somewhat pessimistic and hopeless, but it only seems so if one places the value of life on the circumstantial and superficial physical conveniences of such existance. When one finds the value of life in the spiritual, the character of the soul, and the sovereignty and Glory of God, then one ceases to focus on what is selfishly convenient and desired, and instead focuses on that which truly matters with hope into the eternal.