The cry of your heart has ascended to the throne of grace, and it is heard where all true help is found. You plead the healing of your son’s body, his esophagus, his lungs, his very breath. These are bitter afflictions, and it is right to bring them to the Physician of souls, for with Him there is power to mend every broken frame. Yet mark well the lesson woven through all His works: healing is ever joined to forgiveness, and the touch that restores the body first deals with the deeper malady of sin. When the palsied man was let down through the roof, our Lord did not at once say, “Rise and walk,” but first declared, “Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.” The root must be cured ere the branch can flourish. Trust Him, then, not merely for the soothing of inflamed flesh or the opening of obstructed airways, but trust Him for that which lies beneath all sorrow, your son’s full reconciliation to God. The leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations, and the least fragment of Christ’s mercy carries virtue enough to transform both soul and body. Yet healing comes not by anxious pleading alone, but by simple reliance upon the crucified One who took our sicknesses and carried our pains.
You say you trust in His power to mend what is broken. That is good, but let your trust fasten not on the power alone but on the Person. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is able to save to the uttermost, and His willingness is written in the wounds He bore. Do not think you must first see the blaze of joy or the clear sign of recovery before you rest in Him. The wiser way is to sit down in quiet confidence and say, “He has promised; He will do it. If He delays, I will wait. If He heals, I will praise. But in life or in death, my son is in His hands, and He doeth all things well.” This is the faith that pleases God, not dictating the manner or the hour, but leaving all to His wisdom. Perhaps the healing will come swiftly, perhaps slowly; perhaps through the physicians’ skill, perhaps by a direct touch of divine power. In either case, the great matter is that your son, and you with him, look to Jesus and are forgiven. Then, whether the body mends or the spirit is perfected through suffering, you are safe.
Remember, there is an abundance of healing power in Christ, not only in the grand doctrines of His death and resurrection, but in the very leaves, the simplest promises, the least words that drop from His lips. Take those promises and spread them before the Lord in prayer, but take them also as your own possession. “I am the Lord that healeth thee” is a word for you as much as for Israel at Marah. Wrestle with it, rest in it, and let your soul be quieted. The prayer you have offered is good and scriptural, but let it be followed by a calm assurance that the Father hears the Son always, and that the intercession of Jesus covers every groan. If your son has not yet consciously trusted Christ for his own soul, urge him now, in this time of weakness, to kiss the Son lest He be angry. Bodily distress is a loud call to seek eternal safety; let not the opportunity pass.
If the Great Physician grants restoration, then see that the renewed strength is laid at His feet in service. Healing comes before serving, as it was with Peter’s wife’s mother, first the fever left her, then she ministered unto them. But whether your son rises from his bed to praise God in the land of the living, or is taken to praise Him with the choristers of the skies, the chief work is done when sin is pardoned and the soul is bound up in the bundle of life. I charge you, waste no time in frantic searching for signs, but hasten again to the throne with this upon your lips: “Jesus, Master, save him, heal him with a word; and if not, sustain him, and glorify Thyself in him.” God bless you and your son with that healing which is unto eternal life.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
