The very leaves are healing, from which I gather that the least thing about Christ is healing. His touch, His word, the hem of His garment, all are full of virtue for the body as well as the soul. You ask for deliverance from this pain in your head and throughout your frame, and there is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the leaves, the little things, as it were, about Christ, are full of healing virtue. See in Him the great conduit Head, from which abundant streams of healing flow down to men below!
Pardon and healing are one. When Jesus healed the sick of the palsy, He said, "Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you." He removed the root of the disease by forgiving his sin. 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. But whether this pain is tied to any particular transgression or is part of the general groaning of this fallen creation, the remedy is the same. 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 to apply the remedy. Ask to be forgiven and healing will come from the pardoning hand.
We that are in this body do groan, being burdened, and groan we shall till the day of our full redemption and the deliverance of the body from the bondage of corruption. The body is dead because of sin, though the spirit is life because of righteousness. A burning heat inflames the body, quickens the pulse to an unnatural pace, parches the mouth and tongue and dries up the entire system. Yet these healing leaves change the life blood, affect the spirits and make the nature other than it was before. The Sun of Righteousness has risen upon them with healing in His wings.
Man is a double being: he is composed of body and soul, and each of the portions of man may receive injury and hurt. The wounds of the body are extremely painful, and if they amount to a breaking of the frame the torture is singularly exquisite. We very speedily care for bodily diseases; they are too painful to let us slumber in silence. Yet your Lord knows what really ails you, He knows if there be a palsy of spirit as well as of body, and He removes the root by His own gracious word. There is healing for you, but you must have this healing before you can work for Jesus. Your Lord must begin with you before you can begin with Him.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. The healing power was conspicuously present when Christ was teaching. Jesus linked the healing with the teaching. Get your spiritual meals regularly and have them where your soul is really fed. Lay yourself in the Presence of Jesus, hoping and expecting forgiveness and healing. He is able to heal, and there are times when the power to save is more than usually manifest, times of refreshing, seasons of revival, days of visitation, acceptable days, days of salvation. May this very hour be such a day for you, and may the leaves of that blessed Tree be applied to your every pain, till you rise up to serve Him with a restored frame, and look forward to that land where faces brighter than new born babes owe their freshness to these healing leaves.