Psalm 103:3(NIV)
3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your
diseases,
Humbling as this statement is, yet the fact is certain that
we are all more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to
know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us!
Let us think of Him for a moment tonight.
His cures are very speedy—there is life for a look at
Him; His cures are radical—He strikes at the center of the disease; and so
His cures are sure and certain. He never fails, and the disease never returns. There
is no relapse where Christ heals, no fear that His patients should be merely
patched up for a season. He makes new men of them: He also gives them a new
heart and puts a right spirit within them.
He is well skilled in all diseases. Physicians
generally have some specialty. Although they may know a little about
almost all our pains and ills, there is usually one disease that they have
studied more than others; but Jesus Christ is thoroughly acquainted with the
whole of human nature. He is as much at home with one sinner as with another,
and He never yet met an unusual case that was difficult for Him. He has had
extraordinary complications of strange diseases to deal with, but He has known
exactly with one glance of His eye how to treat the patient. He is the only
universal doctor; and the medicine He gives is the only true panacea, healing
in every instance.
Whatever our spiritual malady may be, we should apply at
once to this Divine Physician. There is no brokenness of heart that Jesus
cannot bind up. "The blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all
sin."1 We have only to think of the myriads who have been delivered
from all sorts of diseases through the power and virtue of His touch, and we
will joyfully put ourselves in His hands. We trust Him, and sin dies; we love
Him, and grace lives; we wait for Him, and grace is strengthened; we see Him as
he is, and grace is perfected forever.
Thought for today:
Can I identify my infirmities? Do I lift them to God?
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