MI DAILY DEVOTION
MONDAY
THE LORD WHO HEALS MAN’S BLINDNESS
(Isaiah 53:4- 5) Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5- But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
The Bible demonstrates the healing power of God through the Lord Jesus Christ by His death on the cross. God used His prophets and servants in healing His children by faith. The Lord Jesus Christ performed miracles by healing the sick in some occasions during His time here on earth. He is still working miracles to millions around the globe. God is able to heal us of our physical sickness as well as with our spiritual sickness. We have read over and over in the Bible how the Lord has healed people who were sick physically. God healed people like blind Bartemaeus who came to Jesus for healing. (Mark 10:46- 52) The Lord Jesus Christ is more interested in healing the spiritual blindness of men than its physical blindness. It’s not that the healing of physical blindness is less important; it’s because the healing of spiritual blindness will determine our eternal destiny. The cure for that kind of sickness is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. It cost God the Father His beloved Son to die on the cross for the cure of our blindness. The sickness that the best doctors, advance medicines and the advance medical technologies could not do and help; it’s the spiritual blindness of man. “It is not enough to come to Christ for spiritual healing, but, when we are healed, we must continue to follow him; that we may do honour to him, and receive instruction from him. Those that have spiritual eye-sight, see that beauty in Christ, that will effectually draw them to run after him.” (Matthew Henry- The Bible Collection Suite) The Bible says; And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. (John 6:2)
