Stones for bread

I've never understood the reasoning behind the bright idea that, "God gives us sickness to teach a lesson". 

What possible lesson would one glean from a deadly disease, other than the fact that it is stealing, killing and destroying their health? 

If we, who are works in progress, would not give stones to our children when they ask for bread, why would we assume that God, who is Love would afflict us with sickness? 

When Jesus said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it." (Jn 11:4), He was not glorifying the sickness as it is sometimes perceived. There is no glory in a dead Lazarus. It was the resurrection of Lazarus that glorified Him.

Sickness is merely one of the curses that Jesus redeemed us from and we have the provision of healing by His stripes.

Instead of being led by opinions, let's go by what He said and did.