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HEALING OF THE NOBLEMAN’S SON
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2
John 4:43-54

Hebrews 12:4-13

 

“…who healeth all thy diseases.”

 

HEALING OF THE NOBLEMAN’S SON
 
What benefits affliction can confer on the soul! We read that anxiety about a son led the nobleman to Christ, in order to obtain help in time of need. Once brought into Christ’s company, he learned a lesson of priceless value. In the end, he “believed, and his whole house” (John 4:53). All this, be it remembered, hinged upon the son’s sickness. If the nobleman’s son had never been ill, his father might have lived and died in his sins.
 
Affliction is one of God’s medicines. By it He often teaches lessons, which would be learned in no other way. By it He often draws souls away from sin and the world, which would otherwise have perished everlastingly.
 
Let us beware of murmuring in the time of trouble. Let us settle it firmly in our minds that there is a meaning, a needs-be and a message from God in every sorrow that falls upon us. There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
 
Christ’s word is as good as His presence. Jesus did not come down to Capernaum to see the sick young man, but only spoke the word: “Thy son liveth” (John 4:51). Almighty power went with that little sentence. That very hour the patient was healed. Christ only spoke and the cure was done. Christ only commanded and the deadly disease stood fast.
 
The fact before us is singularly full of comfort. It gives enormous value to every promise of mercy, grace and peace which ever fell from Christ’s lips. He that by faith has laid hold on some word of Christ has got his feet upon a rock. What Christ has said, He is able to do, and what He has undertaken, He will never fail to make good. The sinner who has really reposed his soul on the word of the Lord Jesus is safe to all eternity. He could not be safer, if he saw the book of life and his own name written in it.
 
THOUGHT: It is better to be sick and have Christ than to be well and on a road to hell.

PRAYER: Father, may I learn Thy lessons through my infirmities.

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