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HEALING OF SIMON’S WIFE’S MOTHER
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Mark 1:29-34; Luke 4:36-41

Hebrews 10:1-14

 

Is anything too

hard for the Lord?

 

HEALING OF SIMON’S WIFE’S MOTHER
 
In time of trouble we should resort first to Jesus, as the friends of Simon’s wife’s mother did (Mark 1:30). There is no remedy like this. Means are to be used diligently without question in time of need. Doctors are to be sent for in sickness. Lawyers are to be consulted when property or character needs defence. The help of friends is to be sought. But still, the first thing to be done is to cry to the Lord Jesus for help. No one is so compassionate and so willing to relieve. Scripture gives many examples of this (Gen 32:11; 2 Kings 19:19; John 11:3; Ps 55:22; 1 Pet 5:7; Phil 4:6).
 
Jesus’ almighty power was seen in that sicknesses and devils alike yielded to His command. He rebuked unclean spirits and they came forth from the unhappy people whom they possessed (Mark 1:25, 26, 34). He rebuked a fever, laid His hands on sick people and at once their diseases departed and the sick were healed (Mark 1:31, 34).
 
Such miracles occurred so frequently in the Gospels that we are apt to read them with a thoughtless eye, and forget the mighty lesson that each one is meant to convey. They are all intended to fasten our minds on the great truth that Christ is the appointed Healer of every evil that sin has brought into this world. Christ is the true antidote and remedy for all the soul-ruining mischief which Satan has wrought on mankind.
 
The Lord Jesus made a complete and perfect cure when He healed. Not only did the fever leave Simon’s mother-in-law, but she served them (Mark 1:31). That weakness and prostration of strength that as a general rule fever leaves behind was entirely removed in her case. The fevered woman was not only made well in a moment, but in the same moment made strong and able to work. What an emblem of Christ’s dealings with sin-sick souls! The sin-sick soul is not merely cured and then left to itself. It is also supplied with a new heart and a right spirit; and enabled to live so as to please God.
 
THOUGHT: (Read 1 Peter 5:7.)
PRAYER: I praise Thee, Father, for Thy power to heal physically and spiritually.

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