Jeremiah 17:14


Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise ~ Jeremiah 17:14

The Lord heals in many ways, though His main concern is our heart and soul health. Of course, we know that what we desire in our heart, so we will do, so we will follow, and in its pulse, so we will often be led to sin. We may live in stubbornness and impurity, rebellion, hardness, and distance from God. Yet, in God’s grace, there is not a single circumstance in which God does not use to bring us into the place of healing from these and more. We have to have the wisdom to allow God into all areas of our life, so that our sicknesses may be healed. We have to be willing to be thoroughly searched by the Spirit of God, and honestly wish to be healed. No one but the Lord can heal our spiritual sickness. And, there is not one remedy, but there are many. He may use the pleasant to heal us. Or, it may be by things that are painful. These are our comforts, and these are our crosses. Healing may come by those things which are granted us, or by things which are taken away. Both serve a purpose in the hands of God, and all are unique to our circumstance, our illness, our willingness and desire for healing. God may use our friends, or our enemy to bring healing. The tool is not the issue, it is the health of His follower God is concerned with. God’s healing penetrates deeper than the skin. His is not a superficial bandage and ointment, but it is a cutting out of that which is of harm to us for our eternity. His is a perfect Doctor’s hand, and His work is to heal and save, to restore and bless.
Devotion by Pastor Julia

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