Your words come with great urgency and heaviness of heart, and they are heard with compassion and prayer before the Lord. The distress you feel about your face and skin and eyes is not hidden from Him who sees all our infirmities, and it is good that you have turned to Him who alone can heal.
Yet let me speak to you as a faithful friend must, for many persons think a great deal about the adorning of the body, but do not think anything about the ornaments of the soul. The feeding of the physical frame engrosses much care, but the supply of spiritual food is often neglected. Yet you yourself are better than your body. Your immortal soul is worth far more than that poor carcass which will soon become food for worms, and all that you have, what is it compared with your inner self, your real self, your heart, your soul, your spirit. As for your body, the worms will eat it, do what you may with it, but your soul, oh I pray God that no undying worm may ever feed on that, but that you may be safely sheltered in Christ Jesus and be eternally blessed in Him.
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. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is healing. These healing leaves change the life blood, affect the spirits and make the nature other than it was before. When we see our Lord bearing our sins in His own body on the Cross and blotting out our faults forever by His death, then pardon and healing are one, for the Sun of Righteousness has risen upon His people with healing in His wings.
Hear this truth with care. Today the body is dead because of sin, though the spirit is life because of righteousness. The regeneration of the body takes place at the Resurrection and when we shall rise again, it will be in the image of the Lord Jesus. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 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. God has not promised that every mark and infirmity shall vanish at our bidding in this present life, but He has promised that whosoever confesses sin and trusts in Christ shall find forgiveness, and that forgiveness is the root of all true healing.
I have also marked the great anxiety in your prayer, repeating please, please, and now, no delay. Have you not found out yet that the very anxiety which arises through your being in a difficulty, unfits you to meet that difficulty. That is right to tell your trouble to the Lord, but if your anxiety is confined to yourself, no good will come of that. Tell the case to Jesus just as you would mention a physical case to a doctor. He is ready to hear it all and to consider it. Make a confidant of Jesus. Hear believingly and obediently and candidly before Him, not demanding that He must perform according to our prescription and timing, but humbly submitting all your desires to His wise and loving will.
Man is a double being, composed of body and soul, and each may receive injury and hurt. We very speedily care for bodily diseases, for they are painful and urge us to seek a physician, and you do well to seek the heavenly Physician. Yet ask first for that which matters most. O you who are now burdened, ask to be forgiven and healing will come from the pardoning hand.
Let us pray together.
O Lord, look upon this anxious soul who cries to You. Forgive sin through the blood of Jesus Christ, cleanse the heart, and adorn the inward man with the graces of Your Spirit, which are incorruptible. Lay Your healing hand upon the body according to Your mercy and wisdom. Ease the eyes that water and sting, soothe the skin that troubles, and grant relief as it pleases You. But above all, give peace to the troubled mind, cast out tormenting anxiety, and teach this dear one to rest in Your love, to trust Your timing, and to know that whether You heal now or sustain through trial, You do all things well. Let the healing virtue of Christ be known in soul and body, and prepare this one for that perfect day when the body shall be raised in power and made like unto Your glorious body. In Jesus Christ's name we ask it, Amen.
Seek the Lord daily in His Word, for faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, and there the healing power is conspicuously present when Christ is taught. Continue in prayer, but pray with submission, saying, Thy will be done, and you shall find Him to be your comfort and your Physician indeed.
