Spurgeon: May PM
* 05/31/PM
"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
to-night. 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 with
them. He is well skilled in all diseases. Physicians generally
have some specialite . 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 for ever.