Jeremiah 8:22 There is a Balm and There is a Physician
God’s answer to this question is “YES!”
There is a balm: A medicine, with healing properties, a remedy, and a soothing agent. Symbolic of God’s Word
There is a physician: One who administers the medicine, the balm. Jesus Christ, the great physician.
If a physician
prescribes a medicine, is it not supposed to meet the need of the one requiring
healing?
The physician surely knows what is
best.
Doctors take the Hippocratic oath
upon graduation promising to give their patients the best care they can give.
The prescription may hurt at times,
but overall will benefit the one in need of a cure.
Jesus sees the need and has the
cure:
1. Sin sick soul: Romans 3:10 and 23
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” “For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God.”
Greeks have sinned, Jews have
sinned. John says that if we say we
have no sin, we
a. Deceive Ourselves–1 John 1:8
b. Make God a liar–1 John 1:10
c. The truth is not in us–1 John 1:8
d. God’s word is not in us–1 John 1:10
Consequences of sin, the wages of
sin is death. Military term of death
for doing wrong.
Sin is an ugly sore that will fester and fester until it is washed away.
The Word gives us freedom from sin.
Romans 6:17-18 “But thanks be to God, that whereas ye were
servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that from of teaching
whereunto ye were delivered; and being made free from sin ye became servants of
righteousness.”
Romans 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
2. Sorrowful heart. No need for anti-depressents, no need for worry. Problem is our day and age.
Rev 3:17 Because thou
sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and
knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and
naked:
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to
buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment,
that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not
appear; and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Rev 3:19 As many as I love,
I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
3. Surrendered life: When things are not going the way we planned.
1 Peter 1-4; 12-13;
There is a balm, we need to apply the balm, by faith for salvation, by freedom for sorrow and by fact for surrender.