Psalm 107:16-21
“He sent His word and healed them.” You find that statement in Psalm 107 verse 20, “He sent His word and healed them.” The psalmist is comparing the Word of God to medicine. Let’s think about that and see what it means to our lives today.

Well, to begin with if the Word of God is like medicine, then sin must be like disease, and it is. Oftentimes in the Bible God uses disease as a picture of sin; leprosy, for example. Disease starts secretly, it enters your body secretly, it grows secretly. And then it begins to sap your strength, take away your appetite, weaken you. And unless something is done, you may die. The wages of sin is still death.

People play with sin; people enjoy sin without realizing it’s like playing with cancer. It’s like enjoying some awful sickness. Nobody enjoys sickness. How can people enjoy sin? Well, sin is like sickness and sin brings death and we need the great Physician, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God is like medicine and that Word is applied by the Holy Spirit of God. When the Lord Jesus Christ comes to examine our case He always makes an accurate diagnosis. He doesn’t have to worry about tests or machinery or anything like that. He always makes the accurate diagnosis; He always knows just what we need. All He waits for us to do is admit that we need the medicine.

You see, He won’t force the medicine on us. The Word of God is the medicine for our souls. It can heal the brokenhearted; it can heal those who have been ravaged by sin, who have rebelled against the Lord. But the great Physician will not force us to take the medicine. We have to be willing to reach out by faith, to admit our need; to admit that we can’t help ourselves and nobody else can help us, and then to accept His diagnosis and His cure. The interesting thing is this: the Lord Jesus Christ is the only Physician who pays the bill. Jesus paid the bill that you and I might have spiritual health today. Accept the medicine; let Him heal your soul.