The Power of God in the Lord Jesus - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.
Luke 6:19

The Power of God in the Lord Jesus
After the Lord Jesus has chosen His twelve apostles on a mountain, He goes down into the valley with them and stands on a “level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem” (v. 17). These crowds come to Jesus to hear Him and to be healed by Him.

What does healing mean in the sense of the Bible? After all, our Bible text is about the healing of diseases or infirmities. But when the Lord Jesus heals, it is not comparable to a medical treatment, because when He lived, He healed everyone and power went out from Him. What doctor could do that?

The Old Testament also speaks about healing. To His people, God had given regulations on how to establish complete healing from an incurable disease (see Leviticus 14). From this we see that God is not concerned with the external treatment of symptoms. When God heals, He completely and comprehensively removes the cause of a problem. Thus, in Psalm 103, it is said of God that He “heals all your diseases” (v. 3).

The healing power of God is still effective today, even if it does not always deliver us from our physical illnesses in the way it did during the lifetime of Jesus in Israel (Acts 10:38). But today He wants to give us access to a very special form of salvation that affects our whole life. Therefore, like the crowds of that time, let us seek to be near to Him in order to find answers to our deep questions concerning life and death.

Today’s reading: 1 Kings 1:1-21 · John 3:9-21