For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds… Jeremiah 30:17
Steve Jobs on the sickbed, quoted, ‘You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear the sickness for you.’ These words hold very true for both physical and spiritual sickness. Every human being born on earth suffers from a deadly sickness ‘Sickness of Sin’ which has absolutely no remedy in any pharmacy or hospital, however, we have a God who gives consolation to Israelites as well to us that He is our Healer: Jehovah Rapha (Exodus 15) when Israelites discovered that the water was bitter at Marah. God intervened and instructed Moses to take and throw a piece of wood into the water, immediately the water became clean, sweet, and refreshing. It was good news then, and it's good news today. In Exodus 15 God provided healing by a tree thrown into the water. Thousands of years later God offered spiritual healing when His Son hung on another tree. “He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross,“ (1 Peter 2:24).
What Jesus did on that cross, fashioned out of a tree, is described in Isaiah 53:4-5, “Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering… 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.” Neither sickness of body nor of the soul can withstand the restoring and healing power of Jehovah Rapha.