Health

Have you been to a doctor’s office lately? It is not filled with people who are well. The healthy have no need for corrective lenses, antibiotics, heart medication, cancer treatments, hearing aids, or surgery. As Jesus said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician.” But when vision becomes blurry, the infection won’t go away, chest pains come, and concerning symptoms occur, you head to a doctor right away.

Have you ever been tested? Severely tested? If you answered that question, “Yes,” you can relate to Abraham in today’s passage. And, even if you haven’t experienced it yet, you will also see in this passage that God is always at work, and he always provides.

Jesus came to deal with our disease. He “bore our sins in his body on the tree . . . by his wounds [we] have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24). Jesus is the Great Physician.

Cry out to the Lord, your healer—Yahweh Rapha.

The same God who provided for Abraham in his time of testing will also provide for you.

We don’t understand it all now, but when we have the whole story, it will all make sense.

Even in my most vulnerable time—when I lie down to sleep—God provides sweet confidence.

In today’s passage, the psalmist prays that God will cause his people to flourish.

Pray that God will give you an “understanding mind” to accomplish everything he has for you to do.