The Eternal Voice speaks to your necessity this very hour with that blessed urgency, "Today! Today! Today!" Your foot is hindered, and you must be active, then today is the day to bring that weak member before the Great Physician. He whose least leaf is healing, who assigns pardon and mending in one merciful glance, stands ready. The pain, the swelling, the fear of unease in leg and foot, these are not beneath His notice, for the very leaves of that heavenly Tree are for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is charged with restoring power.
Do you think this small hurt escapes His eye, when He binds up the broken in heart and heals all their wounds? The hand that touched the palsied man and bade him rise and carry his bed is stretched out still. There is healing power in contact with Him, more present when He is teaching, when faith hears the Word. Lay hold upon this: the Lord’s pardoning mercy and restoring health travel together. Ask not merely for ease in the heel, but look to Him who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases. The true healing begins when the soul feels its own helplessness and cries to Him.
Yet you must be active today. Then seek the remedy, not the mere diagnosis. Calvary is the place for the healing balm, not the lancet alone. Trust that He who enables you to walk humbly with God will also sustain the foot that carries you through the day’s duties. Rise in faith, your Heavenly Bridegroom can make that very frame, now pained and swollen, to serve without complaint. But remember, healing is given that you might minister to Him. Let this body, even in its mending, be offered as a living sacrifice. If He grants you to walk without distress, walk then in love and holy service, flavoring your commonplace steps with devotion to Christ.
Come, then, without delay. "Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your heart." Bring your infirmity to Jesus, who is not far from any of us. The hour of teaching is now; faith comes by hearing. The healing power is present, present for your foot, yes, but infinitely more for your soul, that you might be whole. May the Sun of Righteousness arise upon you with healing in His wings, and may you see strange things this day, even the quiet marvel of a painless step, given that you might follow Him more nearly.