Spurgeon AM today

"Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all."
- Matthew 12:15



What a mass of hideous sickness must have thrust itself under the eye of
Jesus! Yet we read not that he was disgusted, but patiently waited on
every case. What a singular variety of evils must have met at his feet!
What sickening ulcers and putrefying sores! Yet he was ready for every new
shape of the monster evil, and was victor over it in every form. Let the
arrow fly from what quarter it might, he quenched its fiery power. The
heat of fever, or the cold of dropsy; the lethargy of palsy, or the rage
of madness; the filth of leprosy, or the darkness of ophthalmia-all knew
the power of his word, and fled at his command. In every corner of the
field he was triumphant over evil, and received the homage of delivered
captives. He came, he saw, he conquered everywhere. It is even so this
morning. Whatever my own case may be, the beloved Physician can heal me;
and whatever may be the state of others whom I may remember at this moment
in prayer, I may have hope in Jesus that he will be able to heal them of
their sins.
My child, my friend, my dearest one, I can have hope for each, for all,
when I remember the healing power of my Lord; and on my own account,
however severe my struggle with sins and infirmities, I may yet be of good
cheer.
He who on earth walked the hospitals, still dispenses his grace, and
works wonders among the sons of men: let me go to him at once in right
earnest.


Let me praise him, this morning, as I remember how he wrought his
spiritual cures, which bring him most renown. It was by taking upon
himself our sicknesses. "By his stripes we are healed.
" The Church on earth is full of souls healed by our beloved Physician;
and the inhabitants of heaven itself confess that "He healed them all.
" Come, then, my soul, publish abroad the virtue of his grace, and let it
be "to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign which shall not be cut
off."