Mar 12
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Complete Recovery – A Great Physician
Tommy Robbins
“Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?” Jeremiah 8:22
The verse before us propose three questions. Three gospel questions. The answer to these questions reveal the inherit and willing idolatrous heart of all men, especially the elect of God before conversion. This verse reveals the recovery of the same as well. We find these truths revealed not only in this verse and context but throughout the scriptures.
Although the glorious gospel of God’s free and sovereign grace is proclaimed men will not believe it and receive it. Although Christ is evidently set forth as the only propitiation for sin men will not come to Him. Lost, idolatrous mankind will not, yea cannot, come to Christ of their own will because they are in bondage to the idol of sinful self – John 5:40 “And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life.” John 6:65; “Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto Me, except it were given unto him of my Father.”
Left unattended by the grace of God men will continue to grovel before their false god in the darkness of Spiritual death until God says, “Let there be light”! There is a BALM! There is a PHYSICIAN! Man can not recover himself from his damned condition, but JEHOVAH-RAPHA can and will recover His people from their deadly disease – “With His stripes we are healed.”Isaiah 53:5. The Great Physician has guaranteed the complete, eternal recovery of all the Spiritual infirmities of all His sheep, even death. He is the believer’s balm.
He applies Himself to us in love, mercy and grace. Psalms 103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.