****Sparks
Highlights**** Besides
showing us His Holiness, His Power, His Provision, His Wisdom/Teaching, Jesus
is our Healer. He is often referred to
as the Great Physician. Jesus, God Incarnate who is our Creator,
also can heal all our sickness. Crowds
would often flock to Jesus to heal their sicknesses – blindness, deafness,
muteness, lameness, leprosy, and years of bleeding. His touch would heal them, His words would
heal them. But you know what our
greatness sickness is? Our sin. Jesus is the Healer of our greatness sickness
because He has taken the punishment of our sins upon Himself – that is the
antidote, the medicine, for our sickness.
Each time Jesus would heal an infirmity, He would note that it was the
person’s faith that would heal them – make them whole, and then Jesus would
challenge them to depart and sin no more.
See, each person’s problem was not just a sickness of body, but more the
sickness of their sinful heart. Jesus
didn’t just take the time to heal their bodies – with doing that He showed His
power as God, but more powerful than that, is when He told them their sins were
forgiven them. Only God – our Great
Physician – can heal our sinful hearts.
But as Jesus said, it takes faith to accept Him as our healer, and a
willingness to sin no more by giving Him our hearts. Sure, after we put our faith in Him, we are
not perfect in that we still sin, but at that point we should have the concern
to confess that sin, and as the Bible tells us, He is faithful and just to
forgive us that sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We still need our Great Physician to heal our
hearts then, too!
You are welcome to join us anytime
at Sparks! You can also check out the
AWANA program at www.fbc.littletonil.org.
Mrs. Jennifer Schroeder, Mrs. Carol
Sheley, Mrs. Barb Stein.
