OUR LOVING PHYSICIAN

“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”

Psalm 147:3 KJV

Not only does Jesus heal us when we need healing physically, He also heals us emotionally when our heart is breaking.  Jesus, our loving Physician really cares about us.  When we are happy, He rejoices with us and when we are sad, He cries with us.  He knows how it feels to hurt physically and also emotionally.

When we are going through dark valleys, Jesus picks us up and carries us through the dark valleys until the pain goes away.  Not only does He carry us through the dark valleys in our life, He is faithful to set us once again on the mountain top of happiness.  What a precious Saviour we are privileged to know!

We don’t know what is going on in someone’s heart unless he or she tells us but Jesus sees what is in our heart and His heart is moved with compassion for us when we are hurting.  Joyce Landorf, a Christian speaker and author used an illustration on one of her teaching tapes about people who are hurting.

Joyce said “We sit next to people in church who look fine and they look darling but inside they are hurting”.  We need to be encouragers to one another.  All of us hurt and all of us need comforting.  The person who says he or she is always okay is not being truthful because even Jesus hurt when He was here.

If Jesus needed comforting and encouraging, how much more you and I need to be comforted and encouraged.  Remember, Jesus said that when we are being kind and loving to one another we are also being kind and loving to Him.  Are we being kind and loving to Jesus or are we breaking His heart?

Joanne Lowe

November 19, 2015