“ … He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him, and by His wounds we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5)
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” (1 Peter 2:24)
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)
While I believe that God heals us today just as He did back when Christ walked the earth, I believe there may be something a little deeper in the meaning of the above scriptures than a physical healing. We hear the verse from Isaiah spoken whenever someone wants to elicit faith that God heals in the here and now; however, could it not be speaking of our sin as the disease that has afflicted us rather than a mere illness. I use the word ‘mere’ because physical maladies, no matter how serious could never usher us into hell were we to die from them. Sin, however, can.
There is no doubting the fact that Christ bore incredible pain and suffering for each of us even though He was deserving of none of it. The scourging alone, which tore chunks of flesh from His body, would have killed most men. He was pierced and crushed for our sins. He who had never known sin became sin that we might be viewed upon as sinless by God. Let that sink in. Any misdeed throughout your lifetime up to the point of your conversion was heaped upon Christ. Now multiply that by millions upon millions of souls whose sins needed to be purged and we have a heavy laden situation that only one man could eradicate properly and completely; that being the God-man Jesus Christ. Without Christ there is no forgiveness. Without Christ there is no healing from the deadly disease of sin. Is our God not worthy of our praise and adoration? Should we not be willing to dedicate our lives to the service of Almighty God? We need not serve God out of some sense of duty or religious requirement; we should want to serve Him out of a love that was born when we first came to know Him. It is only through our drawing close to Him that we shall truly know Him for intimacy only comes through time spent with someone. God desires our fellowship and loving obedience. It is not to restrict us, but rather to set us free.
WALK WITH THE KING TODAY AND BE A BLESSING!
