The Blessed Physician Heals His people!
"I
am the LORD
that healeth thee."
-EXODUS
15:26 [KJV]
How
does God heal the diseases of His people? He heals them chiefly by
subduing them; for in this life they are never thoroughly healed. The
promise runs: "He will subdue our iniquities"
[MICAH
7:19]. To subdue
them is to restrain their power. Thus he sees one suffering under the
power of unbelief. He gives him faith: this subdues his unbelief.
Here is another poor languid patient, dying of exhaustion: he gives
him strength. Here is a third mourning under his corruptions: he
gives a drop of His blood to purge his conscience, and a taste of His
love to warm his heart. He sees a fourth crying under the strong
assaults of Satan: with one look Satan flies and the soul is set
free.
Thus
with infinite wisdom blended with infinite love and power, He passes
on from bed to bed of every sick patient, administering health
wherever He goes. This blessed Physician has a remedy for every
disease, and the remedy is always felt to be exactly suitable to the
exigency of the case. It goes, so to speak, at once to the right
spot; it heals the malady wherever it be, and whatever it be, just in
the right way, and just at the right time. O then how good it is to
bring all our diseases before the Lord!
In
a case of bodily sickness or painful complaint we uncover freely our
malady to a physician whom we can trust; we tell him every
circumstance and disclose every symptom. So should we go to the Lord
with all our diseases, tell Him all our complaints, unfold to Him all
our sorrows, and fully and freely lay before Him everything that
burdens the conscience, pains the mind, and distresses the soul,
looking and waiting until He speaks the word, and every malady is
healed.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
March
21st, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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