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The Great Medical Missionary, August 3
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he
walked.
1 John 2:6
.
The great Medical Missionary was a wonderful healer. He worked the most
convincing miracles. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He spoke only the
truth. Continually there fell from His lips the precious words that bring spiritual
strength to those who make them a part of the daily life. Spiritually we are built
up from the food that we give the mind.
It is our privilege to receive the bread of life from the great Medical Missionary,
who came to give life to the world. Truth, pure, refining, ennobling truth, came
from His very heart.... His heart was constantly burning with the love that brought
Him from heaven to our world. His goodness and His power enabled Him to reveal
in His life the truth that He came to this earth to bring to the fallen race. In every
word, in every act, He manifested the love of God, cheering and encouraging the
downcast and distressed. In heavenly wisdom He asserted His true majesty by
bending all things to the present and future happiness of human beings. He came
to teach men and women how to live, here below, the life of which He gave them
an example—the life that will make them fit to enter the abodes of bliss.
In His breast, mercy may be said to have held her court. Hear His words of
compassion, spoken to relieve the sin-sick culprit, “Thy sins be forgiven thee”
(
Matthew 9:3
).... He brought healing to soul and body. In His life was enshrouded
the love, the pity, the compassion, the joy, of heaven. Thousands were healed by
His word, “I will; be thou whole.” By His work, His glory was so plainly revealed
that demons were pained, and when compelled to cease tormenting human beings,
confessed Christ to be the Holy One of God.
This work Christ did to show men that He was the tabernacle of witness; that
the Word had been made flesh. In the human encampment, amongst the erring and
sinful, Christ pitched His tent. He lived close to the poor and the lowly, yet He was
the King of glory. He would make all familiar with His character, that we might be
partakers of the divine nature, and thus become one with Him in faith and practice.
He declares, “All things are delivered unto me of my Father” (
chap. 11:27
). “All
things that the Father hath are mine” (
John 16:15
). “All power is given unto me
in heaven and in earth” (
Matthew 28:18
). Why was this wonderful transfer made
but that Christ might be the world’s Redeemer, the incarnate Saviour! ... The
great Teacher, while on this earth, gave His whole life to teach us how to work as
devoted, consecrated missionaries for God.—
Letter 281, August 3, 1904
, to Dr.
W. H. Riley.
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