You are in such a fidget and flutter that you are very apt to mistake your right hand for your left and to put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! You say again that you cannot help being anxious. Yet I would bid you look away from the swelling tide of trouble, for it is written, “I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performs all things for me.” Not merely One who canperform, but who is actually doing it, working out your lasting good by everything that is transpiring around you.
The number is high, you say, but the name of Jesus is high over all, in Heaven, earth and sky! This Man does many miracles. He can do as much for your daughter as He did for the water when He turned it into wine. Think of that poor woman in the synagogue, bound by a spirit of infirmity. She spoke no prayer, she uttered no plea, but the sight of her misery touched the Savior’s heart. He saw her, called her, laid hands upon her, and she was made straight. Even so, our Lord Jesus sees your daughter’s affliction, and the little ones clinging to her, and that sight moves His compassion. Sorely troubled mother, know you not that God has taken your nature upon Himself and now says to you, “Be you comforted, for I have loved you and lived for you and died for you”?
The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. This medicine is given and appointed for the very purpose of healing. It grows for the sick! Are you sick? It grows for you! The other day I was thirsty and passed a drinking fountain; I never paused to ask whether I might drink, for I knew it was placed there for the thirsty, and being thirsty, I drank. So you may come. You worry for your daughter and her two small children; mother, do they cause you sleepless nights and much anxiety? Then do you not see in this miracle much that may comfort you? Bring every hard case before Him, for the all-conquering light of the Sun of Righteousness is not for the dim dawn alone, but it is meant for the blackest midnight that ever made a soul to shiver as in the shadow of death!
Have faith in Him who does great marvels, and trust Him to work a miracle of mercy even for you! The medicine, bitter as it is, was all drained by Himself on Calvary. He has ascended on high, and received gifts for men. At this moment He has power to heal, power to pardon, all the atoning work is done! Healing and forgiveness are placed in happy conjunction; when Jesus healed the sick of the palsy, He said, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” Pardon and healing were one.
Therefore, O for more looking up to God, for in Him lies our strength! O for more praying, there can never be too much of that! If you cannot see the brightness of His face, the shadow of His wings shall be enough for you. Only let you get near Him, only permit you humbly to trust Him, and it shall be enough for you, until these calamities pass. May the Lord grant that your daughter may feel that healing touch and experience that Divine Deliverance this very hour! He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.