By His Wounds You Have Been Healed!

Jeremiah had proclaimed the message of God to the people of Judah at the Temple Gates:

Since my people are crushed, 
   I am crushed;
   I mourn, and horror grips me.
Is there no balm in Gilead?
   Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no healing

   for the wound of my people?

                             (Jer 8:21-22 NIV)

Is there no healing for the wound of God's people? Of course there is! “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:23-25)

When we are sick; if we have a cold or flu; or some other illness; maybe it is even considered a terminal illness; do we not usually seek medical help? Do we not wish to be healed; to be made whole? Through sin, humankind fell into a state of spiritual decay. We turned our backs on God and sin separated us from He who created and loves us. But, through the sacrifice of the Christ, we have been healed. We have been made whole. We have been reconciled to God our Father, through Jesus the Christ! Thanks be to God!

Since we can receive forgiveness; since we can receive healing; since we can receive wholeness; since we can be reconciled to God our Father; let all God's children turn to Him and receive the gift of wholeness that has been given to us by the Son of God who took away our sins by bearing them upon the cross for us. 

Why would we reject the forgiveness that has been purchased for us when it cost our when it cost our Savior so much suffering and persecution; when it cost him his life to heal our sin-sick souls? 

Jesus is the great physician. Only he can heal the sin-sick soul! 

God's Peace - Pr. J