Does Jesus Want to Heal Me?

By Kristen Wetherell

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

It’s been 12 years—12 long years of her very lifeblood draining from her. And not only that, but her savings, her possessions, her strength, her hope that anything will ever change.

Here, standing before her, is the one they say is a miracle-worker, a change-maker, the one who can make the impossible happen—and stop it from happening.

A man says Jesus is on his way to heal someone’s daughter. So I have this one chance, she thinks. If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.

Does He Want to Heal Me?

We love this Bible story. It’s one of faith, boldness, and power. It reminds us nothing is impossible for God, no one is outside the realm of Jesus’s love and care—that Jesus heals.

But if we’re honest, stories of Jesus healing the sick, blind, and lame can cause us to wonder, Why hasn’t Jesus healed me? We all have ailments, even if they’re not physical — broken relationships, broken promises, broken dreams. We feel like the hesitant woman on the outskirts of the crowd rather than the one cured by a touch of his garment.

But there’s more to this account than meets the eye.

Healing Is a Picture

Jesus says to the woman, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease” (Mark 5:34). His answer to us is the same, if we’ll come to him by faith—though our deepest “disease” is different than we may think.

We need healing for a sin-sick soul.

This woman’s physical healing illustrates the spiritual healing Jesus performs in all who trust and follow him. 

Jesus’s miraculous healings are physical realities portraying a spiritual one: the forgiveness of sins for those who would otherwise perish.

Does Jesus want to heal you? Yes, and it’s assured: By his wounds you’ve been healed (1 Pet. 2:24).

Healing Is a Promise

Jesus’s response to the woman also previews our eternal future—a final healing through the perfect restoration of body, mind, and soul, when Jesus returns and renews all things. What God has done through miracles past, he will do in our heavenly future.

Does Jesus want to heal you? Yes. And he will. For those who fear his name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings (Mal. 4:2). A new day is coming. Your healing is a promise.

Healing Is a Possibility

Jesus chooses to heal the sick woman, and Jesus can choose to heal you.

Will we come to him boldly as she did? Will we trust him for such things? Will we trust him to do what’s best—according to his wisdom and timing, not ours? And for his glory to be displayed in us—whether or not our requests are granted?

Article excerpt taken from The Gospel Coalition (U.S. Edition). 

Read the full resource here: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/does-jesus-want-to-heal-me/