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The Ministry of Health and Healing
“In my hand no price I bring;
Simply to Thy cross I cling.”
“‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.’”
Mark 9:23
. It is faith that connects us with heaven and brings us
strength for coping with the powers of darkness. In Christ, God
has provided means for subduing every evil trait and resisting every
temptation, however strong. Many feel that they lack faith, therefore
they remain away from Christ. But these souls, in their helpless
unworthiness, should cast themselves upon the mercy of their com-
passionate Savior. Don’t look to self but to Christ. He who healed
the sick and cast out demons when He was on earth is still the mighty
Redeemer. Then grasp His promises as leaves from the tree of life:
“‘The one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.’”
John
6:37
. As you come to Him, believe that He accepts you, because He
has promised. You can never perish while you do this—never.
“God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we
were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8
. And “if God is
for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also
freely give us all things?”
Romans 8:31, 32
.
“I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor princi-
palities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height
nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Verses 38,
39
.
A Leper Is Cleansed
Of all the diseases known in the East, leprosy was most dreaded.
Its incurable, contagious character, and its horrible effect on its
victims, filled the bravest with fear. Among the Jews it was regarded
as a judgment on account of sin, and hence was called “the stroke,”
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“the finger of God.” Deep-rooted, ineradicable, deadly, it was looked
upon as a symbol of sin.
By ritual law the leper was pronounced unclean. Whatever he
touched was unclean. The air was polluted by his breath. Like one
already dead, he was shut out from society and home. One who was