Morning, May 7

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all."

  Matthew 12:15

   What a mass of hideous sickness must have thrust itself under the eye
   of Jesus! Yet we read not that he was disgusted, but patiently waited
   on every case. What a singular variety of evils must have met at his
   feet! What sickening ulcers and putrefying sores! Yet he was ready for
   every new shape of the monster evil, and was victor over it in every
   form. Let the arrow fly from what quarter it might, he quenched its
   fiery power. The heat of fever, or the cold of dropsy; the lethargy of
   palsy, or the rage of madness; the filth of leprosy, or the darkness of
   ophthalmia--all knew the power of his word, and fled at his command. In
   every corner of the field he was triumphant over evil, and received the
   homage of delivered captives. He came, he saw, he conquered everywhere.
   It is even so this morning. Whatever my own case may be, the beloved
   Physician can heal me; and whatever may be the state of others whom I
   may remember at this moment in prayer, I may have hope in Jesus that he
   will be able to heal them of their sins. My child, my friend, my
   dearest one, I can have hope for each, for all, when I remember the
   healing power of my Lord; and on my own account, however severe my
   struggle with sins and infirmities, I may yet be of good cheer. He who
   on earth walked the hospitals, still dispenses his grace, and works
   wonders among the sons of men: let me go to him at once in right
   earnest.

   Let me praise him, this morning, as I remember how he wrought his
   spiritual cures, which bring him most renown. It was by taking upon
   himself our sicknesses. "By his stripes we are healed." The Church on
   earth is full of souls healed by our beloved Physician; and the
   inhabitants of heaven itself confess that "He healed them all." Come,
   then, my soul, publish abroad the virtue of his grace, and let it be
   "to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign which shall not be cut
   off."