Evening, May 31
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Psalms 103:3
"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.