Lord, by Your wounds we are healed. You are the Great Healer. Thank you for bearing the punishment that is supposed to be imposed on us due to our sins. You bore the sufferings and pain, to save us. Thanks for healing our relationship with God. Thanks for healing our physical bodies. Thanks for the healing that you will provide to people today, as we conduct the Medical Mission, in Tagumpay. Thank you for the miraculous spiritual healing. Help me to trust You in my physical challenges.
Text: Isaiah 53:4-6 New International Version
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But 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.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
SCRIPTURE INSIGHT
[From ODB] On Easter Sunday 2020, the famous Christ the Redeemer statue that overlooks Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was illuminated in a way that appeared to clothe Jesus in the attire of a physician. The poignant portrayal of Christ as a doctor was in tribute to the many frontline health-care workers battling the coronavirus pandemic. The imagery brings to life the common description of Jesus as our Great Physician (Mark 2:17).
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Jesus healed many people of their physical afflictions during His earthly ministry: blind Bartimaeus (10:46–52), a leper (Luke 5:12–16), and a paralytic (Matthew 9:1–8), to name a few. His care for the health of those following Him was also demonstrated in providing for their hunger by multiplying a simple meal to feed the masses (John 6:1–13). Each of these miracles reveal both Jesus’ mighty power and His genuine love for people.
His greatest act of healing, however, came through His death and resurrection, as foretold by the prophet Isaiah. It is “by [Jesus’] wounds we are healed” of our worst affliction: our separation from God as a result of our sins (Isaiah 53:5). Though Jesus doesn’t heal all our health challenges, we can trust the cure for our deepest need: the healing He brings to our relationship with God. By Kirsten Holmberg
[From Commentary] Isaiah 52:13–53:12 is called the “Suffering Servant” passage and is one of Isaiah’s best-known texts. In fact, The Bible Knowledge Commentary points out that this passage is repeatedly quoted in the New Testament, including Isaiah 52:15 in Romans 15:21; Isaiah 53:1 in John 12:38 and Romans 10:16; Isaiah 53:4 in Matthew 8:17; Isaiah 53:7–8 in Acts 8:32–33; Isaiah 53:9 in 1 Peter 2:22; and Isaiah 53:12 in Luke 22:37. The many citations from this text make sense when the “Suffering Servant” is seen as Jesus—whose great suffering would produce great glory. When matching up the descriptions of the sufferer in Isaiah’s text with the Gospels, it’s easy to see why so many believers in Jesus view this as a messianic prophecy.
by Bill Crowder
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[From me] Lord, by Your wounds we are healed. You are the Great Healer. Thank you for bearing the punishment that is supposed to be imposed on us due to our sins. You bore the sufferings and pain, to save us. Thanks for healing our relationship with God. Thanks for healing our physical bodies. Thanks for the healing that you will provide to people, as we conduct today the Medical Mission, in Tagumpay. Thank you for the miraculous spiritual healing. Help me to trust You in my physical challenges.
Posted April 23, 2023 - the day when we hold our Medical Mission in Tagumpay, Bay, Laguna, where we will treat more than 200 patients
