JEHOVAH-ROPHI by H. Veysey

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 4, 1883

JEHOVAH-ROPHI

By H. Veysey

Postal-Card Jottings.—No. 2.

JEHOVAH-ROPHI.

Jehovah-Rophi is the title which our God takes to himself in Ex. 15 : 26. "I am Jehovah-Rophi;" i. e. Jehovah thy Physician, the Lord that healeth thee and will keep thee from these bodily diseases which I have brought upon the Egyptians. In Jehovah-Jireh (Gen. 22 : 14), we see the Lord providing a Saviour, through whom our sins are forgiven. Here we see him as a Saviour for our bodily ailments. So in Ps. 103 : 3, we bless the Lord first for forgiving all our iniquities, and secondly, for healing all our diseases, true certainly as to spiritual diseases, as, evil temper, pride, selfishness, covetousness, etc., but none the less true, to those who believe, as to bodily and physical ailments. The Lord Jesus, when on earth, "healed all that were sick (who applied to him), that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, (Is. 53 : 4) Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." This he did on the tree, where "he was wounded for our transgressions," and "bruised for our iniquities," (verse 5). Blessed Christ of God! how little we know of thee and thy precious work on that accursed tree! Reader, believest thou? Hast thou a personal Physician? Jer. 8 : 22. Art thou sick? He has died to heal thee. Only believe, and thou shalt see the salvation—the deliverance of God in thy case. Saints are not relieved of their bodily pains for the same reason that sinners do not get rid of their sins. They do not believe—they do not look to Jesus. (1) They do not diligently hearken to God, Ex. 15 : 26; Jas. 5 : 14-16; or (2) they look to other means which God graciously uses, as in John 5 : 3, 4; or (3) they do not believe in the Physician. Matt. 13 : 58; Mark 6 : 5, 6; Heb. 11 : 6. Pray over 2 Chron. 16 : 12, believe and obey. H. Veysey.