Our Physician

‘* They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.” — MArrvT. ix. 5

‘] OW is it that some people care so very much about these beautiful names of Christ, and others do not care at all about them? It just depends upon whether the Holy Spirit has opened our eyes to see that we are in want of exactly the very thing that Jesus is called. That is what makes all the difference.

People who think they have nothing the matter with them do not wish for a doctor. If you heard that there was a wonderful man come to the neighborhood who could cure consumption, I don’t suppose you would think twice about it, you who have good strong lungs, and can run, and sing, and laugh! But if you had a dreadful cough, and had seen people shake their heads and whisper, “Ah, poor child, afraid it is consumption!” you would want to hear everything you could about this doctor; and when they kept telling you how clever he was and how many people he had cured, I think you would want very much to go to him and be cured too.

Now every one of us is born into the world with a disease in our souls called sin (Rom. iil. ); “and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death” (James i. ) And the very worst sign of this disease is when we do not feel it, and do not know that we have it (Rev. iii. ).

There is only One who can heal us, and if He does not heal us we never can be healed at all (Acts iv. ); that is Jesus, the Good Physician; and as He never sent any one away without healing who came to Him on earth (Matt. xii. ), so He never sends away any one (John vi. ) who comes to Him now to be healed of the plague of sin. He “healeth all thy diseases” (Ps. citi. bY

It is a great step toward healing when we are shown that we do want the Physician Then we may’ come at once to Him, no matter at all how bad we feel, and say, ‘Heal my soul, for I have sinned against ives (CPS: xii, ); and then He says, “I um the Lord that healeth thee” (Exod. xv.

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But suppose you do not feel so very bad as all that, what then? Well, then you must just believe that God knows better than you, and that you are a sinner and need healing, although you don’t feel it. And then you must not wait to feel your sinfulness; if you do Satan will be very clever in contriving to hide it from you, so that you may not come to Jesus at all. So don’t wait for that, nor for anything, but come and tell the Lord Jesus that, though you do not yet fee7 much about it, yet you 4zow you need to be saved 84 Morning Stas.

and healed, and ask Him to be your Good Physician, and to undertake your case just as you are; and then you may say, “Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed” (Jer. XVii, ); for “with His stripes we are healed” (Isa. liti. i