The Twenty Ninth of April.I AM THE LORD --- Exodus 15:20."Heal my heart, O Lord, and I shall be healed." --- Jeremiah 17:14. Divine Answer: "I am the Lord that healeth thee." --- Exodus 15:20. "They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." --- Matthew 9:12. "I have seen his ways, and will heal him." --- Isaiah 55:18; 43:3; 61:1. "He healed all that were sick." --- Matthew 8:15-17. Christ's healing all bodily sickness was a token of his power and grace to heal all spiritual diseases of our souls, though ever so desparate and dangerous. Therefore, give thyself only up to his cure; he understands thy distemper also, and will certainly restore thee. He has healed a great many already, nay. all those who ever desired it, of all their infirmities. Thou canst never be too miserable and bad before him; he is ever willing and able to help. The worse thy case is, the more he will pity thee, and have patience. Before we can be made whole, his way is to make us thoroughly sensible of our sickness, and lay our wounds more and more open. But as the physician then is most wanted, we must be more earnest to implore his help, and he will surely bind us up again, and heal us; yet thoroughly, at last; for he heals all, even the most incurable diseases. Psalm 103:3. Bind up, O Lord, and cheer my soul Let not thy Spirit quite depart, |