Bible verses such as Psalm 103:3; Isaiah 53:4-6; 1 Peter 2:24 and Matthew 8:16-17 make it clear that God’s promises include healing from physical illness and injury, as well as the spiritual sickness that is sin. God’s care for us is holistic in that it pairs holiness with wholeness.
Chapters 27 and 28 of Deuteronomy list not only the blessings that would follow Israel’s obedience to the Law of Moses but the curses that would follow their disobedience. The promised blessings were like a cornucopia overflowing with desirable fruit; the curses a foul-smelling bin of overflowing rubbish.
How welcome, then. is the Apostle Paul’s declaration that “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’; [so] that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles (non-Jewish nations) through Jesus Christ…” (Galatians 3:13, 14)
The contrast is between “the curse of the Law” and “the blessings of Abraham”. The Law of God itself is holy and just of course, and it remains. The “curse of the Law” is what comes on those who break it.
The inspired apostle Paul’s words move us from Law to Faith in just two verses! No longer is the choice between the blessings and curses of the Law of Moses; instead those who believe in Jesus Christ are blessed by receiving by faith the promised Spirit of God and living by the Royal Law of Love. Those who are unable to keep the Law of Moses come under the curse that follows the breaking of the Law.
The “curse” being not one flung by God at law-breakers after they have broken each law but the inevitable condemnation that results from doing so, which may be likened to what happens when we break a law of nature and suffering is the inevitable consequence. As I have written before, we are not caught between the mountains of blessing and curses (John 4) but walk in the spirit of the law of life in Christ Jesus.