Scripture Reading: Matthew 9:18-34
Only comparatively few of our Lord’s healings are recorded. He seems never to have refused to heal any who came to Him or were brought to Him. Besides, He healed some for whom no one interceded. Here was a ruler — an exceptional case, for the rulers were not His friends. Probably this man’s great distress led him to seek healing for his child even in spite of his dislike of Jesus. The ruler and his prejudice were lost in the father.
The man came himself, saying, “My daughter is even now dead.” Trouble comes just as inevitably and as resistlessly to the mansions of the great and rich as to the homes of the lowly and poor. None are exempt. We can build no walls and set up no doors to exclude sickness and death. This is one lesson. Another is that when sickness or any other trouble comes to us, we ought to send for Christ. We are to send for physicians, too, in sickness. They are God’s ministers of healing. Usually God requires our cooperation in all that He does for us. But we should also send for Christ. He alone has original power to heal. Life is His gift and is under His care. Health is His alone to give. Medicines unblessed by Him give no relief. Only at His bidding can anyone be restored from illness. While we use all the means within our reach, we should use them with prayer for Divine blessing on them and in dependence on Divine power. Whenever anyone is sick in our house we should send for Jesus and put the case in His hands.
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