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Devotional: July 17th

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THE LORD THAT HEALETH THEE

I am the Lord that healeth thee. - Exodus 15:26

Them that had need of healing He healed. - Luke 9:2

All the sick in the crowd round Christ were sent away well; but the gifts He bestowed so broadcast had no relation to their spiritual natures, and gifts that have relation to our spiritual nature cannot be thus given in entire disregard of our actions in the matter.

Christ cannot heal you unless you take His healing power. He did on earth sometimes, though not often, cure physical disease without the requirement of faith on the part of the healed person or his friends, but He cannot (He would if He could) do so in regard of the disease of sin. There, unless a man goes to Him and trusts Him, and submits his spirit to the operation of Christ’s pardoning and hallowing grace, there cannot be any remedy applied, nor any cure effected. That is no limitation of the universal power of the Gospel. It is only saying that if you do not take the medicine you cannot expect that it will do you any good. And surely that is plain, common sense. There are plenty of people who fancy that Christ’s healing and saving power will, somehow or other, reach all men, apart from the man’s act. It is all a delusion. If it could, it would. But if salvation could be thus given, independent of the man, it would come down to a mere mechanical thing, and would not be worth the having. So I say, if you will not take the medicine, you cannot get the cure.

I say, further, if you do not feel that you are ill you will not take the medicine. A man crippled with lameness, or tortured with fever, or groping in the daylight and blind, or deaf to all the sounds of this sweet world, could not but know that he was a subject for the healing. But the awful thing about our disease is that the worse you are the less you know it; and that when conscience ought to be speaking loudest it is quieted altogether, and leaves a man often perfectly at peace, so that after he has done evil things he wipes his mouth and says, " I have done no harm." Do not be contented until you have recognised what is true, that you - you, stand a sinful man before God.

There is surely no madness comparable to the madness of the man that prefers to keep his sin and die rather than go to Christ and live. Will you look into your own heart? Will you recognise that awful solemn law of God, which ought to regulate all our doings, and, alas! has been so often neglected and so often transgressed by each of us? Oh! if once you saw yourself as you are, you would turn to Him and say, " Heal me"; and you would be healed, and He would lay His hand upon you. If only you will go, sick and broken, to Him, and trust in His great sacrifice, and open your hearts to the influx of His healing power, He will give you "perfect soundness"; and your song will be, "Bless the Lord, O my soul. . . . Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth thy diseases."

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