****Sparks
Highlights**** Besides showing us His Holiness, His Power, His
Provision, His Wisdom/Teaching, Jesus is our Healer. He is often referred to as the Great Physician. Jesus, God Incarnate who is our Creator, also
can heal all our sickness. Crowds would
often flock to Jesus to heal their sicknesses – blindness, deafness, muteness,
lameness, leprosy, and years of bleeding.
His touch would heal them, His words would heal them. But you know what our greatness sickness
is? Our sin. Jesus is the Healer of our greatness sickness
because He has taken the punishment of our sins upon Himself – that is the antidote,
the medicine, for our sickness. Each
time Jesus would heal an infirmity, He would note that it was the person’s
faith that would heal them – make them whole -, and then Jesus would challenge
them to depart and sin no more. See,
each person’s problem was not just a sickness of body, but more the sickness of
their sinful heart. Jesus didn’t just
take the time to heal their bodies – with doing that He showed His power as
God, but more powerful than that, is when He told them their sins were forgiven
them. Only God – our Great Physician –
can heal our sinful hearts. But as Jesus
said, it takes faith to accept Him as our healer, and a willingness to sin no
more by giving Him our hearts. Sure,
after we put our faith in Him, we are not perfect in that we still sin, but at
that point we should have the concern to confess that sin, and as the Bible
tells us, He is faithful and just to forgive us that sin and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. We still need our
Great Physician to heal our hearts then, too!
You are welcome to join us anytime
at Sparks! You can also check out the
AWANA program at www.fbc.littletonil.org.
Mrs. Jennifer Schroeder, Mr. Roger
Fox, Mrs. Barb Stein.
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