Psalm 107 contains four vivid pictures of sin and salvation. This (vv.16-21) passage, the psalmist is likens sin to a disease and God’s Word to medicine: “Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, where afflicted....He sent His Word and healed them (vv.17,20).

Disease starts secretly. It enters your body secretly and grows secretly. ... Unless something is done, it will kill you. So it is with sin. People play with sin without realising it’s danger. ... 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. But the sick how to reach out by Faith and admit their need (Matt.9:12). 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. If you can cure every malady of the soul.

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Perhaps your life has been ravaged by sin and you have yet to admit you are 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.