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I am the LORD that healeth thee.
Exodus 15:26

How does God heal the diseases of His people? He heals them chiefly by subduing them; for in this life they are never thoroughly healed. The promise runs—“He will subdue our iniquities” (Micah 7:19). To subdue them is to restrain their power. Thus He sees one suffering under the power of unbelief. He gives him faith—this subdues his unbelief. Here is another poor languid patient, dying of exhaustion—He gives him strength. Here is a third mourning under his corruptions—He gives a drop of His blood to purge his conscience, and a taste of His love to warm his heart. He sees a fourth crying under the strong assaults of Satan—with one look Satan flies and the soul is set free.

Thus with infinite wisdom blended with infinite love and power, He passes on from bed to bed of every sick patient, administering health wherever He goes. This blessed Physician has a remedy for every disease, and the remedy is always felt to be exactly suitable to the exigency of the case. It goes, so to speak, at once to the right spot; it heals the malady wherever it be, and whatever it be, just in the right way, and just at the right time.

O then how good it is to bring all our soul diseases before the Lord! In a case of bodily sickness or painful complaint we uncover freely our malady to a physician whom we can trust; we tell him every circumstance and disclose every symptom. So should we go to the Lord with all our soul diseases, tell Him all our complaints, unfold to Him all our sorrows, and fully and freely lay before Him everything that burdens the conscience, pains the mind, and distresses the soul, looking and waiting until He speaks the word, and every malady is healed.

To the reader…

Perhaps today you are bowed down under a sickness of the soul that you have carried with you for years: unbelief, corruption, weariness, or the fierce assaults of Satan. You may have sighed that you will never be delivered from it. I say it honestly: in this life our sins are never wholly healed, but the Lord subdues them. He gives faith against unbelief, strength to the weary, a drop of His blood for the guilty conscience.

Why then would you hide your sickness? With an earthly physician we trust, we lay bare every circumstance. Go in the same way to Him Who says, “I am the LORD that healeth thee.” Tell Him everything that burdens your conscience and pains your heart. With infinite wisdom and love He goes from one sickbed to the next, and He has a remedy that fits your need exactly. Wait upon Him; one word from Him is enough.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl