Healing of the Soul and the Body

Spurgeon was a prolific preacher, who relied on gleaning gems of truth from the Scripture.  His church grew to be one of the largest in the world, all without the entertainment and experience that is passed off as worship in many of our churches today.  In the following commentary he discusses healing of the soul and the body.

It is the sole prerogative of God to remove spiritual disease.  Natural disease may be instrumentally healed by men, but even then the honor is to be given God who gives virtue to medicine, and bestows power to the human frame to cast off disease.  As for spiritual sicknesses, these remain with the great Physician alone.  He claims it as His prerogative, “I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal.”  One of the LORD’s choice titles is Jehovah-Rophi, the LORD that heals us.  “I will heal thee of thy wounds,” is a promise that could not come from the lips of man, but only from the mouth of the eternal God.  On this account the psalmist cried to the LORD,  “O LORD, heal me, for my bones are sore vexed,” and again, “Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.”  For this, also, the godly praise the name of the LORD, saying, “He healeth all our diseases.”  He who made man can restore man.  He who was at first the creator of our nature can create it anew.   What transcendent comfort it is that in the person of Jesus “dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily!”  My soul, whatever your disease may be, this great Physician can heal you.  If He be God, there can be no limit to His power.  Come then with the blind eye of darkened understanding.  Come with the limping foot of wasted energy.  Come with the maimed hand of weak faith, the fever of an angry temper, or the ague of shivering despondency.  Come just as you are, for He who is God can certainly restore you.  None shall restrain the healing virtue that proceeds from Jesus our LORD.  Legions of devils have been made to admit the power of the beloved Physician, and never once has He been baffled.  All His patients have been cured in the past and shall be in the future, and you will be among them , my friend, if you but rest yourself in Him this night.

Spurgeon on Healing

Spurgeon’s commentary on Psalm 103:3, Who heals all your diseases.

The fact is certain, that we are all more or less suffering under the  disease of sin.  What a comfort to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us!   His cures are very speedy- there is life in a look at Him; His cures are radical- He strikes at hte center of the disease; and hence, His cures are sure and certain.  He never fails, and the disease never returns.  There is no relapse where Christ heals;  no fear that His patients should be merely patched up for a season.  He makes new men of them: He gives them a new heart and He puts within them a right spirit.  He is well skilled in all diseases.  Physicians generally have some specialty.  Although they may know a little about almost all our pains and ills, there is usually one disease they have studied above all others; but Jesus Christ is thoroughly acquainted with the whole of human nature.  He is as much at home with one sinner as with another, and never yet did He meet with an out-of -the-way case that was difficult for Him.  He has had extraordinary complications of strange diseases to deal with, but He has known at a glance exactly how to treat the patient.  He is the only universal panacea, healing in every instance.  Whatever our spiritual malady may be; we should apply at once to this Divine Physician.  There is no brokenness of heart which Jesus cannot bind up.  “His blood cleasnses from all sin.”  We have but to think of the myriads who have been delivered from all sorts of diseases through the power and virtue of His touch, and we shall joyfully put ourselves in His hands.  We trust Him and sin dies; we love Him and grace lives;  we wait for Him and grace is strengthened; we see Him as He is, and grace is perfected forever. 

Faith from Beginning to End

What must we have to be empowered to do God’s work?  Spurgeon explains the necessary ingredient well.  “Faith is the foot of the soul by which it can march along the road of the commandments.  Love can make the feet move more swiftly; but faith is the foot which carries the soul.  Faith is the oil enabling the wheels of holy devotion and of earnest piety to move well; and without faith the wheels are taken from the chariot, and we drag heavily.   With faith I can do all things; without faith I shall neither have the inclination nor the power to do anything in the service of God.  If you want to find the men who serve God the best, you must look for the men of the most faith.  Little faith will save a man, but little faith cannot do great things for God.”  May God enable us to have great faith.