When you have a sickness or injury, you are probably reminded of other people’s suffering. Many of them suffer more than you, and longer than you. Many people suffer constantly, every day without respite. We must have compassion on those who are wrecked by physical disease just like we have compassion on those who are bound by spiritual depravity and psychological depression.

Jesus Christ is the solution. There is grace and power in the gospel. Just as it can save those who believe (Romans 1:16), it can heal those who believe (Psalm 103:3, Acts 14:9, Galatians 3:5). God is for all of life. The gospel is powerful to penetrate every aspect of man’s existence (Psalm 107:20, Proverbs 4:22).

Even though medical science has supposedly advanced, there are still so many sick people in the world. Some cannot afford care, and some cannot be cured. Moreover, we sometimes hear about new super-diseases that perplex the experts. Will they eventually overcome them? But what can they do for someone now? And by then, there will be other new super-diseases. In any case, even if it is something that men can cure, we should never make the gospel the last resort. Faith is our first response.

Jesus devoted a curiously exaggerated amount of time to healing the sick. He did not think it was unspiritual. He did not think it was an imbalance. He did this even though the people he healed eventually died, and we have inherited only written records of these miracles. He did this even though he could have performed more miracles of nature, or preached more sermons, or trained more disciples. For Jesus, healing demonstrated the heart of God, as with forgiveness and righteousness.

He preached, and then he healed the sick, healed the sick, and healed the sick. And then he healed the sick, healed the sick, and healed the sick. It was how he characterized his ministry (Matthew 11:5), and it was how the apostles characterized his ministry (Acts 10:38). Jesus healed the sick like one possessed – possessed by the will of God. He said, “As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work” (John 9:4). In other words, “I have to keep going. I have to keep working. Come on, we are running out of time.” What prompted him to say this? What was driving him like this? It was when he came across a blind man, and healed him (John 9:1-7).

In the same context, he said, “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world” (John 9:5). But he also said to his people, “You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). And he said, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father” (John 14:12). Christians are to continue his work. We must not hide our light. We must also live the healing-driven life.