Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

May 14, 2011

                                                                    Surgery for Healing

Come, and let us return to the Lord; for He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

                                                                                 ~ Hosea 6:1

THE LORD HEALED
THIS BOY. HE WAS
DEAD, UNTIL JESUS
HEALED HIM.

  "It is the Lord's way to tear before He heals. This is the honest love of His heart, and the sure surgery of His hand. He also bruises before He binds up, or else it would be uncertain work. The law comes before the gospel; the sense of need before the supply of it. Is the reader now under the convincing, crushing hand of the Spirit? This is a preliminary to healing and binding up.

THE LORD HEALS ALL WHO
ARE SICK AND DYING THAT
BELIEVE IN HIS HEALING
POWER. THOSE THAT DO NOT
BELIEVE WILL NOT HEAL
AS FAST AS THOSE WHO BELIEVE.

  Do not despair, but come to the Lord with all your wounds, bruises, and sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. Let us show Him our gaping wounds, and beseech Him to know His own work and complete it. Will a surgeon make an incision, and then leave his patient to bleed to death? Will the Lord pull down our old house, and then refuse to build us a better one? Never!"
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)