Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Have you wondered why God doesn't intervene to heal more sick people, miraculously? Medical science does heal many--but does that mean that the Great Physician has abdicated His healing role to the medical profession? Could there be a different circumstance today than there was 2000 years ago when Christ and His apostles did heal the sick, cleansed the lepers, gave sight to the blind, even raised the dead?
We know that the message of the cross was more vividly proclaimed then (1 Cor. 2:1-3; Gal. 6:14, etc.), resulting in deeper, more thorough conversions. The Lord could work these miracles because the healed persons would "henceforth" be constrained to "live for Him who died for them and rose again" (2 Cor. 5:15).
We know Christ "is the same yesterday, today, and forever" (Heb. 13:8), which means He is still compassionate. He doesn't like to see people suffer, for He suffers with them (Isa. 63:9).
Therefore we can only conclude that the most important ministry of healing is proclaiming the only message that can reconcile alienated hearts to God--the genuine gospel of His grace, unmixed with any element of legalism or Babylonian confusion.
A wise writer tells us that in the final work, "miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed." That must mean that in that same final work, the pure true gospel will again be recovered and proclaimed. If the Lord can give us the grace to be humble in heart today, we can begin at least to recover that blessing, and that will be Good News.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: November 29, 1997.
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