Christ’s Manner of Healing
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These lessons are for us. There are conditions to be observed by
all who would preserve health. All should learn what these conditions
are. The Lord is not pleased with ignorance in regard to His laws,
either natural or spiritual. We are to be workers together with God for
the restoration of health to the body as well as to the soul.
And we should teach others how to preserve and to recover health.
For the sick we should use the remedies which God has provided in
nature, and we should point them to Him who alone can restore. It is
our work to present the sick and suffering to Christ in the arms of our
faith. We should teach them to believe in the Great Healer. We should
lay hold on His promise and pray for the manifestation of His power.
The very essence of the gospel is restoration, and the Saviour would
have us bid the sick, the hopeless, and the afflicted take hold upon His
strength.
The power of love was in all Christ’s healing, and only by partaking
of that love, through faith, can we be instruments for His work. If
we neglect to link ourselves in divine connection with Christ, the
current of life-giving energy cannot flow in rich streams from us to
the people. There were places where the Saviour Himself could not
do many mighty works because of their unbelief. So now unbelief
separates the church from her divine Helper. Her hold upon eternal
realities is weak. By her lack of faith, God is disappointed and robbed
of His glory.
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