"One daughter, about twelve years of age... lay a dying... And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind Him, and touched the border of His garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched... There cometh one... saying... Thy daughter is dead... [Jesus] took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. And her spirit came again, and she arose" (Luke 8:41-55).
How vain is our labor to heal ourselves!
How wasted our time and our resources spent!
How pointless the searching of books on our shelves
Or worldly experts to whom we are sent!
Healing is hopeless without Jesus Christ;
How clearly we see this in Scripture revealed
In the woman who spent all and nothing sufficed
Who languished for twelve years and still was not healed.
We see this as well in the twelve-year old girl
Who helplessly died as she laid on her bed.
These are examples portraying this world,
Hopelessly sin-sick and spiritually dead.
Yet this is exactly why Jesus Christ came,
To accomplish the healing that we never could!
We are dead in our sins, we are not only lame;
There's not even one on this earth who is good.
Our Lord Jesus Christ is still healing today
All who will trust Him as their great Physician!
Hopeless and helpless, we dare not delay
In coming to Him in our hopeless condition!
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