Evening, May 31
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“Who healeth all thy diseases.”
Psalm 103:3
Humbling as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are
all more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort
to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing
to heal us! Let us think of him awhile tonight. His cures are very
speedy —there is life in a look at him; his cures are radical —he strikes at the centre of the disease; and hence, his cures are
sure and certain. He never fails, and the disease never returns . There is no relapse where Christ heals; no fear that his patients
should be merely patched up for a season, he makes new men of them:
a new heart also does he give them, and a right spirit does he put
within them. He is well skilled in all diseases. Physicians generally have some speciality . Although they may know a little about almost all our pains and ills,
there is usually one disease which they have studied above all others;
but Jesus Christ is thoroughly acquainted with the whole of human
nature. He is as much at home with one sinner as with another, and
never yet did he meet with an out-of-the-way case that was difficult
to him. He has had extraordinary complications of strange diseases
to deal with, but he has known exactly with one glance of his eye
how to treat the patient. He is the only universal doctor; and the
medicine he gives is the only true catholicon, healing in every instance.
Whatever our spiritual malady may be, we should apply at once to this
Divine Physician. There is no brokenness of heart which Jesus cannot
bind up. “His blood cleanseth from all sin.” We have but to think of the myriads who have been delivered from
all sorts of diseases through the power and virtue of his touch, and
we shall joyfully put ourselves in his hands. We trust him, and sin
dies; we love him, and grace lives; we wait for him and grace is strengthened;
we see him as he is, and grace is perfected forever.