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Jesus the Healer

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 11, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 40.

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Jesus the Healer

（From Daniel March’s “Walks and Homes of Jesus”）
The world is one great lazar-house of diseased and suffering souls,—and Jesus comes, in the message of His Word, to make them whole.
The first awakening call of the Gospel to every soul is still the same as that which fell from the lips of Jesus in the porches of Bethesda: “Wilt thou be made whole?” This is the great question of redemption in answer to the great cry of humanity—“Who will show us any good?” Christ comes as a Saviour, a Healer, a Redeemer, and the help which He offers is sufficient for the utmost sorrows and necessities of the human race. It is not a partial or a temporary relief which He brings. He would make the wounded spirit whole. He would save from death. He looks upon us in love, that we may see in His eye the promise of something better than the world can give.
The three great moral faculties of the soul are faith, hope, and love; and these lie all paralyzed and inactive, until Christ comes to give them life.

Faith the Channel

Faith is the conducting medium by which the renewed heart is made to beat in unison with the heart of infinite love. Faith is the living hand by which the soul takes hold on infinite help. Faith lifts the veil from the unseen world, and displays the glories of the Paradise above. Faith lightens the burden and relieves the weariness of life by anticipating the rest of heaven. Faith rejoices in the depths of affliction, conquers in the great fight of temptations, waxes stronger under every trial of its strength, reposes for protection under the overshadowing throne of the Most High. And yet without Christ, there is no assured foundation on which such faith can rest. He alone is the Author and the Finisher of faith. He comes to the poor, the helpless, and the guilty, saying, “Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me, shall never die.”
Hope is the recovered treasure, the loss of which had left the soul utterly poor and undone. Hope can sustain the soul, like a sure and tried anchor, amid all the tempests and agitations of the world; it can give confidence and peace when the heavens are dark, and the journey of life is ending in the valley of the shadow of death. But without Christ the soul is utterly without hope; and He comes upon the mission of mercy to bring back the lost treasure, and to make every soul who will receive Him infinitely and forever rich in the possession of the hope of eternal life.

Power of Love

Love is the golden chain which binds the believing soul in willing bonds to the service of the supreme Sovereign, to the society of the holy and the blessed, to the maintenance of justice and truth forever and ever. Love lifts the ransomed soul from the deeps of despair, and gives it wings to climb the highest heaven, and a voice to sing its great Redeemer’s praise in sweeter strains than angels ever sung. And it is Christ who comes to quicken, in every soul that receives His Word, the paralyzed capacity for such love, and to kindle the faintest spark of spiritual life into immortal flame. Christ comes to lift up the depraved and darkened slave of sin, and make him a fit companion for the seraph that adores in the highest heaven, and shines the brightest in the splendors of the eternal throne.
These three great moral faculties of man—faith, hope, and love, without the use of which he is a paralyzed and helpless creature—this immortal triad of powers, by the exercise of which man enlists the help of Omnipotence, is all in ruins until Christ comes with the word of life. He comes to give soundness and unconquerable vitality to man’s ruined nature, by renewing its decayed and unused capacities for faith, hope, and love.