"If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you." - Exodus 15v26
Jehovah-Rapha- the Lord is my healer. This is the name revealed to us in Exodus 15v26. God saw the great need of Israel as He cured the bitter waters. He also promised that if they would follow Him He would protect them from the diseases of the Egyptians.
Too many charlatans and quacks have taken advantage of the physical aspect of God’s healing. They focus on ‘healing revivals’ and claim to knock have the power to heal the sick, mend the lame, and give sight to the blind.
My point, thought tempting, is not to attack those men. God does do physical healing miracles. We have seen plenty of them ourselves.
There is, however, a more important kind of healing. We are all more with a disease more serious and more fatal than any cancer. We are all born with the disease called sin. We read of this when Peter quotes the prophet Isaiah – ‘who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.’
Jehovah is our Jehovah-Nissi in that He is the great sin healer. Jesus went to the cross to take our punishment. Our healing was not free. It came at the cost of His stripes.
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