The urgency of your cry tells me the Spirit is at work, do not let indifference or delay steal this moment. An ill answer can be considered, while no answer baffles all our efforts to help you. It is far more hopeful to encounter opposition than to meet with indifference. You have cried out for Jesus to stop the runaround and bring the urgent care you need, and the very fact you seek Him means the Sun of Righteousness is already rising with healing in His wings.
Healing and forgiveness are placed in happy conjunction and both bestowed on the Lord’s people when they looked not for them. The stripes of Jesus heal us, not our repentance, not our pleas, not our urgency, but His wounds alone. Only think of the good which a few simple lines may do: “My sins deserve eternal death, but Jesus died for me.” This is the groundwork of security for the sinner who believes, he lives because Jesus died in his place, and he is acceptable before God because Jesus is accepted. Jesus Christ took upon Himself the sins of all who ever will trust Him.
Do you feel unable to move, as if paralyzed by your need and the endless runaround? The man sick of the palsy could do nothing but lie before Jesus, hoping and expecting forgiveness and healing. And Jesus linked the healing with the teaching, saying first, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” Pardon and healing were one. If you believe in Jesus, I care not how far you have fallen or how great your inability, if you believe, you are brought into contact with Omnipotence, and that Omnipotence will heal you.
You must put nothing with Jesus Christ, or you greatly dishonor Him. In order to your salvation and your healing, you must rely only upon the wounds of Jesus Christ and nothing else. The text does not say, “His stripes help to heal us,” but, “By His stripes we are healed.” Even the least thing about Christ, the very leaves, are full of healing virtue. If the sick soul is full of leprosy, the Savior is full of Grace. Calvary is the place for the healing balm rather than for the lancet and the knife. The work of Jesus, our heavenly Physician, is not so much to point out disease as to indicate and apply the remedy.
Waste no time in applying to the Physician of souls, but hasten to Him with words like these, “Jesus! Master! Hear my cry! Save me, heal me with a word. Fainting at Thy feet I lie; Thou my whispered plaint hast heard.”
Healing must come before any other step. Do not think it a little thing or an easy thing to listen to this Gospel. Take heed how you hear. The only chance you have of Heaven lies in this, God became Man that He might suffer what was due for human sin. And whoever trusts in Jesus Christ, the Substitute for sinners, shall be saved. The moment Jesus saves a soul, He gives that soul strength. Pardon comes first, then immediate cure. He says to you now, “Arise.” The Lord Jesus uses His touch, this is the healing point. Put forth your finger and touch the hem of His garment now. Lift your eyes, look to Christ on the Cross.
Jesus finds you before you find Him, though you do not know it. He is near at hand, His eyes open, observing all that ails you, with a mind deeply sympathetic and a heart quick to relieve. Come and rest upon His atoning Sacrifice. Give yourself up to Him wholly and unreservedly, and He will save you. Take Him to be your Savior by the simple act of faith. Then you shall know the truth: “A guilty, weak, and helpless worm, on Christ’s kind arms I fall; He is my strength and righteousness, my Jesus, and my all.” God grant it to be so this very hour.