Good Medicine

[nancyshanice]

The psalmist likens sin to a disease and God's Word to medicine:

"Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.... He sent His word and healed them" (psalms 107:17,20).

Disease starts secretly. It enters your body secretly and grows secretly. Then it begins to sap your strength, rob your appetite and weaken you. Unless something is done, it will kill you.

So it is with sin. People play with sin without realizing its danger. That's like treating cancer or AIDS lightly. Sin brings death. To be healed, we need the medicine of God's Word.

Scripture can heal the brokenhearted. It can heal those who have been ravaged by sin, who have rebelled against the Lord. But the sick have to reach out by faith and admit their need. We have to admit that we can't help ourselves and that no one else can help us.

Medicine can be expensive and even hard to obtain sometimes. But the Word of God is free and available. It can cure every malady of the soul.

Perhaps your life has been ravaged by sin and you have yet to admit your need and reach out to the Lord for help. Never delay treatment for your soul. Read the Word of God and ask the Holy Spirit to apply its truths to your heart. God is the good medicine.

[Gladys]

We were hopeless when sin entered in this world but thank God through His son there is hope.The only way we can escape from it is by accepting the one who has power through His death, He overcame the wages of sin. So let us hide the word of God in our hearts and be a lamp in our feet, that is the only way we can be cured. This good medicine must be taken daily for you to achieve the dose.

[lynkez]

Sin yields guilt and shame. This alone can cause stress to one and that is a disease. Living by the word of God is nourishing and sustaining. Let us all embrace the love of God to obedience and submission.

[Ivyc]

Obedience to the will of God and full submission to his commandments is the one and only best medicine we can get. Like the rest of the prescriptions it should be taken daily.