As we have spoken of God's healing our circumstances, so now we have to think of the Lord's healing our bodies. Why are diseases and pains left in the bodies of God's people? Note this, that in every healing of which we are the subjects, we have a pledge of the Resurrection. Therefore, both from His healing your souls and from His healing your bodies, gather power to believe in the fact that He will heal your mental, moral and spiritual diseases! Lift up your hearts with joy as you sing of Jehovah-Rophi, "The Lord that heals you."
The glorious Jehovah shows His healing power upon our circumstances. The healing of Marah and the healing of the body are placed before the text and they shed a light upon it. They place this name of the Lord in a golden frame and cause us to look upon it with the greater interest. As one who has felt His restoring hand, I will personally sing unto Him who is the health of my countenance and my God.
There is an atonement prepared, provided, designated and set forth. We have not to search for it, or add to it, Jehovah has spoken! If Jehovah has spoken in such a manner; if the sum and substance of what He has spoken is that, "God has set forth His Son Jesus Christ to be a propitiation through faith in His blood," then we must and will listen to Him! The blood of Jesus speaks better things to God than the blood of Abel did. Blessed be the name of Jehovah-jireh for having thought of me, a beggar, a wretch, a condemned criminal, and for having provided the Lamb of God whose precious blood was shed instead of mine! He is Jehovah, or, mark you, the whole of God's word is false, and there is no noun for a sinner's hope.
Oftentimes when, by some sin of impurity, a sinner weakens his body and injures his health, his cure is much helped by his repenting and forsaking his uncleanness. First, they have no need to say it when the Lord comes and dwells with them, for the Sun of Righteousness has risen upon them with healing in His wings. When Jesus healed the sick of the palsy, He said to him, "Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you." Pardon and healing were one! The Lord has begun to heal us and the healing virtue which His Grace has infused into us will work us health and cure till we shall be without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing! His salvation will also perfectly heal our bodies. We are on our way to eternal health! We have the life within us which is to be perfect forever and ever! Why should we, then, say, "I am sick"? If a man could be quite sure that he would be in perfect health, tomorrow, he would say little about the sickness of an hour.
Jehovah has himself become man that so he may do man's work: think you that he has done it imperfectly? Jehovah, he who girds the angels that excel in strength, has taken upon him the form of a servant that he may become obedient: think you that his service will be incomplete? There grows no healing herb but the one plant of renown. There is one sacred Fountain, to wash, therein, is health, there is but one, it was opened on Calvary! There is one great Physician who lays His hands on men and they are restored, there is but one! These healing leaves change the life blood, affect the spirits and make the nature other than it was before. Yonder in Heaven, those faces which look so bright and comely, fresher than new born babes, owe their freshness to these healing leaves! And so until the Glory life begins, the abiding power of the healing leaves keeps the soul of the Believer in perpetual health and will keep him so, world without end!
The Lord Jehovah is our strength and our song. As for you in the midst of life, tremble not because of your difficulties, "is anything too hard for the Lord?" Jehovah dies not but still abides the same. The world cannot be destroyed, because "Jehovah is there." O you who are now sick unto death, ask to be forgiven and healing will come from the pardoning hand. God bless you! Amen.
