Article October 3, 1988 Issue

We can expect to be healed

What brought people to Christ Jesus? Surely it was an expectation—or at least a hope—that they would be comforted and healed.

Sue Eppes Shields

Speaking of the tremendous response to Christ Jesus' ministry, Luke says, "They that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them."^{Luke 4:40.}

What did Jesus see that was different from what others saw in the ailing multitude and that enabled him to heal them? Obviously he couldn't have personally known each one of the sick and impotent folk who came or were brought to him to be healed. Among the people there must have been both rich and poor, some who had pleasant personalities and some with sour dispositions, some who were miserable sinners and some who were devout worshipers. He healed all types of people. The thing is, they came with an expectation, or at least a hope, of being healed.

Perhaps they had heard of others who had been cured. Or they may have known instinctively that he would heal them. Either way, this expectant outlook allowed their thoughts to be touched by the Christ, Truth. They may have caught at least a glimpse of their actual spirituality. And this lifted them above the sense of separation from good, God, and healed them.

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