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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall he healed. Jeremiah 17:14. Divine answer. I am the Lord that healed thee. Exodus 15:26. They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matthew 9:12. I have seen his ways, and will heal them. Isaiah 57:18. Isaiah 42:3. and Isaiah 61:1. He healed all that were sick. Matthew 8:15-17.
This was an emblem of his power and grace to heal all spiritual diseases of our souls, though ever so desperate and dangerous. Therefore give thyself only up to his cure, he understands thy distemper also, and will certainly restore thee. He has healed a great many already: nay, all those who ever desired it, from all their infirmities. Thou canst never be too miserable and bad for him; he is ever willing and able to help. The worse thy case is, the more he will pity thee and have patience. Before we can be made whole, his way is to make us thoroughly sensible of our sickness, and lay our wounds more and more open. But as the physician then is most wanted, we must be the more earnest to implore his help, and he will surely bind us up again and heal us, though perhaps not at once, but sometimes slowly and wonderfully, yet thoroughly at last, for he heals all, even the most incurable diseases. Psalms 103:3.
Bind up, O Lord, and cheer my soul
With thy forgiving love:
O make my broken spirit whole,
And bid my pains remove.
Let not thy spirit quite depart.
Nor drive me from thy face!
Create anew my vicious heart,
And fill it with thy grace.
