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Morning and Evening

August 30, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed.' 'I have seen His ways, and will heal him." — Jeremiah 17:14; Isaiah 57:18 · KJV

It is God's sole prerogative to remove spiritual disease. Natural disease may be healed through the instrumentality of men, but even then the honor belongs to God, who gives power to medicine and enables the human frame to throw off disease. Spiritual sicknesses, however, remain with the great Physician alone; He claims it as His prerogative: "I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal." One of the Lord's choice titles is Yahweh-Rophi, the Lord that heals you. "I will heal thee of thy wounds" is a promise that could never come from the lips of man, but only from the mouth of the eternal God. For this reason the psalmist cried, "O Lord, heal me; for my bones are sore vexed," and again, "Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee." For this, too, the godly praise the name of the Lord, saying, "He healeth all our diseases." He who made man can restore man; He who first created our nature can create it anew. What a surpassing comfort that in the person of Jesus "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily"! My soul, whatever your disease, this great Physician can heal you. If He is God, there can be no limit to His power. Come, then, with the blind eye of a darkened understanding, come with the limping foot of wasted energy, come with the maimed hand of weak faith, the fever of an angry temper, or the ague of shivering despondency; come just as you are, for He who is God can certainly heal you of your plague. None can restrain the healing power that flows from Jesus our Lord. Legions of devils have been made to own the power of the beloved Physician, and never once has He been baffled. All His patients have been cured in the past and shall be in the future; and you shall be one of them, my friend, if you will but rest yourself in Him this night.