One of my favorite writers is Charles Spurgeon,

the Prince of Preachers.  He lived and preached

during the latter half of the 19th century.  He was

a student of the Word and preached with vibrancy.

Today’s devotion from Charles Spurgeon was so

on topic for The Balm of Gilead, that I decided to

post it.  Be blessed today and be healed!

“Who healeth all thy diseases.”
— Psalms 103:3

Humbling as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all
more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us!

Let us think of him awhile to-night. His cures are very speedy-there is
life in a look at him; his cures are radical-he strikes at the centre
of the disease; and hence, his cures are sure and certain. He never
fails, and the disease never returns. There is no relapse where Christ
heals; no fear that his patients should be merely patched up for a
season, he makes new men of them: a new heart also does he give them, and a right spirit does he put with them. He is well skilled in all
diseases. Physicians generally have some speciality. Although they may know a little about almost all our pains and ills, there is usually one disease which they have studied above all others; but Jesus Christ is thoroughly acquainted with the whole of human nature. He is as much at home with one sinner as with another, and never yet did he meet with an out-of-the-way case that was difficult to him. He has had extraordinary complications of strange diseases to deal with, but he has known exactly with one glance of his eye how to treat the patient. He is the only universal doctor; and the medicine he gives is the only true catholicon, healing in every instance. Whatever our spiritual malady may be, we should apply at once to this Divine Physician. There is no brokenness of heart which Jesus cannot bind up. “His blood cleanseth from all sin.” We have but to think of the myriads who have been delivered from all sorts of diseases through the power and virtue of his touch, and we shall joyfully put ourselves in his hands. We trust him, and sin dies; we love him, and grace lives; we wait for him and grace is strengthened; we see him as he is, and grace is perfected for ever.