Our Lady in Medjugorje tells you how to accept illness and the cross

September 11, 1986
Dear children! In these days, as you celebrate the Cross, I want your cross to become joy for you too. In a particular way, dear children, pray to be able to accept sickness and suffering with love, as Jesus accepted them. Only in this way will I be able, with joy, to give you thanks and healings that Jesus allows me. Thanks for answering my call!
Some passages from the Bible that can help us understand this message.
Isaiah 55,12-13
So you will leave with joy, you will be led in peace. The mountains and hills ahead of you will erupt in shouts of joy and all the trees in the fields will clap their hands. Instead of thorns, cypress trees will grow, instead of nettles, myrtle trees will grow; this will be to the glory of the Lord, an eternal sign that will not disappear.
Sirach 10,6-17
Do not worry about your neighbor for any wrong; do nothing in anger. Pride is hateful to the Lord and to men, and injustice is abominable to both. The empire passes from one people to another because of injustice, violence and wealth. Why on earth is it proud who is earth and ash? Even when alive his bowels are repugnant. The illness is long, the doctor laughs at it; whoever is king today will die tomorrow. When man dies he inherits insects, beasts and worms. The principle of human pride is to get away from the Lord, to keep one's heart away from those who created it. In fact, the principle of pride is sin; whoever abandons himself spreads the abomination around him. This is why the Lord makes his punishments incredible and scourges him to the end. The Lord has brought down the throne of the powerful, in their place has made the humble sit. The Lord has uprooted the roots of the nations, in their place has planted the humble. The Lord has upset the regions of the nations, and has destroyed them from the foundations of the earth. He uprooted and annihilated them, he made their memory disappear from the earth.
Luke 9,23: 27-XNUMX
And then, to everyone, he said: “If anyone wants to come after me, deny himself, take up his cross every day and follow me. Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for man to gain the whole world if he loses himself or ruins himself? Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and that of the Father and of the holy angels. Truly I say to you: there are some present here who will not die before having seen the kingdom of God ”.
John 15,9: 17-XNUMX
Just as the Father loved me, so did I love you. Stay in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, as I have observed the commandments of my Father and remain in his love. This I have told you so that my joy is within you and your joy is full. This is my commandment: that you love one another, as I have loved you. Nobody has a greater love than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command you. I no longer call you servants, because the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and I made you to go and bear fruit and your fruit to remain; because everything you ask the Father in my name, grant it to you. This I command you: love one another.