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Ärende: Surgery for Healing
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Faith's Checkbook  

Charles H. Spurgeon
May 13, 2006

 

May 14 




Surgery for Healing 

"Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for He hath torn, and He will heal us;
He hath smitten, and He will bind us up" (Hosea 6:1). 

It is the LORD's way to tear before He heals. This is the honest love of His
heart and the sure surgery of His hand. He also bruises before He binds up, or
else it would be uncertain work. The law comes before the gospel, the sense of
need before the supply of it. Is the reader now under the convincing, crushing
hand of the Spirit? Has he received the spirit of bondage again to fear? This
is a salutary preliminary to real gospel healing and binding up. 

Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the LORD with all thy jagged wounds,
black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it.
It is our LORD's office to bind up the brokenhearted, and He is gloriously at
home at it. Let us not linger but at once return unto the LORD from whom we
have gone astray. Let us show Him our gaping wounds and beseech him to know His
own work and complete it. Will a surgeon make an incision and then leave his
patient to bleed to death? Will the LORD pull down our old house and then
refuse to build us a better one? Dost Thou ever wantonly increase the misery of
poor anxious souls? That be far from Thee, O LORD. 

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791 L.M. J. HART 
The Rainbow. Gen. 8. 20-22; 9. 13-17 



1 When, deaf to every warning given,  Man braved the patient power of heaven, 
Great in his anger, God arose, 
Deluged the world, and drowned his foes. 

2 Vengeance, that called for this just doom,  Retired to make sweet mercy room;

God, of his wrath repenting, swore  A flood should drown the earth no more. 

3 That future ages this might know,  He placed in heaven his radiant bow;  The
sign, till time itself shall fail,  That waters shall no more prevail. 

4 [The beauties of this bow but shine  To vulgar eyes as something fine; 
Others investigate their cause 
By mediums drawn from nature’s laws. 

5 But what great ends can men pursue  From schemes like these, suppose them
true?  Describe the form, the cause define,  The rainbow still remains a sign. 

6 A sign in which by faith we read  The covenant God with Noah made; 
A noble end and truly great; 
But something greater lies there yet.] 

7 This bow that beams with vivid light,  Presents a sign to Christian sight, 
That God has sworn (who dares condemn?)  He will no more be wroth with them. 

8 [Thus the believer, when he views  The rainbow in its various hues, 
May say, “Those lively colours shine  To show that heaven is surely mine. 

9 “See in yon cloud what tinctures glow,  And gild the smiling vales below; 
So smiles my cheerful soul to see 
My God is reconciled to me.ö] 




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