The Healer
Luke 7:1- 16
"For he had healed many, so that those with diseases were pushing forward to touch him."
(Mark 3:10)
I imagine you have experienced periods of sickness or have been alongside dear ones with incurable diseases. On those occasions we have the tendency to appreciate our health and well-being more than usual. Other times we complain and ask why me? We must remember that in a fallen world, disease, pain and death are expected.
Jesus spent much of His time during His public ministry healing those who were suffering. He restored the demon-possessed, the crippled, the blind and the sick. He attended to them all, laying His hands on them, touching them and even healing them from a distance at times. He was a man of immeasurable compassion.
We need to recognize that while pain and suffering are part of this world, Jesus, the Great Healer, cares about us. The Sovereign One of the universe has a purpose even in our diseases. My prayer is that you will come to Him and find Him as faithful today as He was to the hurting crowds 2,000 years ago. He will carry you through your pain for His glory.
INSIGHT
"If my people... humble themselves and pray and seek my face... then will I... forgive their sin and will heal their land."
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR
Isaiah 20-22
Psalm 81
Acts 1
Luke 7:1- 16
The Faith of the Centurion
1 When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. 2 There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3 The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 4 When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this, 5 because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue." 6 So Jesus went with them.
He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: "Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. 7 That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. 8 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it."
9 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel." 10 Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.
Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son
11 Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. 12 As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, "Don’t cry."
14 Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!" 15 The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.
16 They were all filled with awe and praised God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said. "God has come to help his people."
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