DASH WAS a dog who had been run over and his leg broken. His master took him to a vet who set his leg, and after a few weeks it healed nicely.
One day Dash met one of his doggie friends whose leg also had been hurt in an accident. Dash immediately trotted off with his friend to the office of the same vet where he himself had got relief from pain. He barked and howled at the door and when it was opened, he rushed in with his friend.
The vet soon set his friend’s leg, and a little later the two dogs left the office, their tails wagging in gratitude.
Dash knew where to go for relief. And boys and girls, and older folks too, have Someone they can go to for relief, to be healed, not merely from bodily pain, but for relief for their sin-sick souls. That One is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Great Physician.
He alone can take away sin and minister peace and comfort.
The blood of Jesus is God’s remedy for sin.
“The Great Physician now is near,
The sympathizing Jesus;
He speaks, the drooping heart to cheer,
O hear the voice of Jesus.”
My sheep... they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand... and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand.
Jesus is our Shepherd,
For the sheep He bled;
Ev’ry lamb is sprinkled
With the blood He shed.
Then on each He setteth
His own secret sign,
“They that have My Spirit,
These,” saith He, “are Mine.”
ML-08/15/1971