It is a mercy that you have sent this request, for the Lord delights to hear the prayers of His people, and it is our joy to bear you to the mercy, seat. Tomorrow you face the scanning, and the physicians suspect a heavy affliction. Yet remember, the great Physician walks the wards of the hospital as truly as He stood in the streets of Capernaum. The utmost length of human sickness can be reached by His healing hand, for if He is God, there can be no limit to His infinite power.
Be not overawed by the suspicions of the doctors. The evil they fear is not unknown to your Lord. Lay hold of this truth: your confidence is in no measure or sense in what you are, nor in the clearness of the scans, but altogether in what Christ is on your behalf. Faith has the golden key of the ivory palaces, and it is faith that leads to prayer. Pray, then, with the simplicity of a child, “Jesus, Master, hear my cry; save me, heal me with a word.”
Let your trust rest wholly and entirely upon Christ, for no other faith will stand against the shock of dread tidings. I charge you, fall flat upon the promise of mercy which God has given through our Lord Jesus Christ, for when you are flat on the promise you cannot fall any lower. The shield of faith must be all of one piece, no mixture of hope in your own merit or the physicians’ skill, but simple reliance on Him who bled on Calvary. There grows no healing herb but the one plant of renown; the balm is at the Cross.
This trial may be the very means by which the Sun of Righteousness rises upon you with healing in His wings. Pardon and healing are one in Jesus. When He healed the palsied man, He first said, “Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven thee.” Seek first, then, the healing of your soul, and leave your body to Him who made it. Strong faith is content without signs, without tokens, without marvels; it believes God’s bare Word and asks for no confirming miracle. Yet I will ask the Lord, if it be His will, that the scans reveal nothing serious, and that you be restored to full health to His glory.
Meanwhile, this I know: if you are justified by faith, you have peace with God through Jesus Christ our Lord. That peace will hold you steady as the examining table lies hard beneath you. Do not let your heart be troubled; neither let it be afraid. We shall pray without ceasing for you, and we look to the Day when the leaves of the tree are for the healing of all nations, and every shadow of sickness is gone forever.