Psalm 147:3 contains one of the most comforting descriptions of God in the Bible:
“He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.”
The healing work of God is mentioned repeatedly in the Psalms. I recommend reading these passages and meditating on the wonder of God’s healing power:
Psalm 6:1-5; Psalm 30:1-3; Psalm 41:1-4; Psalm 103:1-5; Psalm 107:17-22.
From these verses, what do the psalmists mean when they pray for and write about God’s healing?
Charles Spurgeon offers these comments on Psalm 147:3, which I find most helpful in answering the above question:
“The kings of the earth think to be great through their loftiness; but Jehovah becomes really so by his condescension. Behold, the Most High has to do with the sick and the sorry, with the wretched and the wounded! He walks the hospitals as the good Physician! His deep sympathy with mourners is a special mark of his goodness.
“Few will associate with the despondent, but Jehovah chooses their company, and abides with them till he has healed them by his comforts. He deigns to handle and heal broken hearts: he himself lays on the ointment of grace, and the soft bandages of love, and thus binds up the bleeding wounds of those convinced of sin. This is compassion like a God. Well may those praise him to whom he has acted so gracious a part.
“The Lord is always healing and binding: this is no new work to him, he has done it of old; and it is not a thing of the past of which he is now weary, for he is still healing and still binding, as the original hath it. Come, broken hearts, come to the Physician who never fails to heal: uncover your wounds to him who so tenderly binds them up!”
Source: Treasury of David
Has God healed your heart from the disease of sin? Take time today to offer up a prayer of praise and thanks to him for this.
“Be gracious to me, for I am languishing;
Heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled.
My soul also is greatly troubled.”
Psalm 6:2-3
“Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits,
who forgives all your iniquity,
and heals all your diseases”
Psalm 103:2-3
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