HOW wonderful were the activities of the Lord Jesus at the close of a day of untiring devotion to the will of His Father in ministering healing to each needy one brought to Him as recorded in the closing verses of Luke 4!
“When the sun was setting all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto Him, and He laid His hands on every one of them, and healed them.”
What unwearied compassion is witnessed here The Son of God, the Great Physician, laid His holy hands on sick ones, and healed them!
Think of that gracious laying on of His hands on each, bringing each needy one into healing contact with Himself. He healed every one!
“Demons also went out of many”: ―
“Disease and death and demon
All fled before Thy word.”
No wonder when it was day the crowd would have “kept Him back, that He should not go from them”!
It may be these lines are being read by someone who is “weary, worn and sad,” because of their heavy burden of guilt? You may come to Him now just as you are, in all your need as a sinner, and He will receive you. The Scriptures assure us that “Now is the accepted time; behold, Now is the day of salvation (2 Cor. 6:22(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) (2 Corinthians 6:2)). He would delight to give you that touch of healing power― that touch that brings the soul into personal acquaintance with the Blesser. Those hands, dear reader, once laid in healing power on the sick were cruelly nailed to Calvary’s cross; Jesus is now in the glory, but His hands are still out-stretched in blessing to every needy soul, the work of redemption has been accomplished by Him and God glorified as to the whole question of sin.
The mission of the blessed Saviour to this world is briefly stated in words “easy to be understood” in verse 18:―
He hath anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor;
He hath sent Me to heal the broken-hearted;
to preach deliverance to the captives;
recovery of sight to the blind;
to set at liberty them that are bruised;
to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”
The sun was setting when Jesus was active in healing power and grace― there was no wane in His compassionate love to the sick and distressed by Satan’s power at the close of that wonderful day! And, dear reader, there is abundant evidence that there is no waning in the activities of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in their compassion for those in need as the sun is setting on this wonderful day of grace, which has witnessed the unceasing activity of the Godhead in recovering for Its Own pleasure the myriads of those who have trusted in the blood of Jesus. The sun is surely setting―it may at any moment disappear below the horizon of this poor, doomed world!
Then, friend, be warned; make haste, come to the Saviour ere it be too late. Come just as you are—in all your need, and He will heal you.
“Just as I am, ― poor, wretched, blind,
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need in Thee to find,
O Lamb of God, I come.”
J. R.