Editorial July 24, 1989 Issue

Divine Love's healing touch

Ann Kenrick

What would it have been like to be part of the crowd that followed Christ Jesus? How would you have felt as you listened to him teach and witnessed some of his healings? Wouldn't it be likely that you would have felt something of the love of God that Jesus so naturally expressed?

The Gospels tell us of the Master's compassionate, practical response to those who asked to be healed. For instance, Matthew records that once a leper said to him quite simply, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean." We read, "And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed."^{Matt. 8:2, 3.}

On another occasion when Jesus visited Peter's house, the disciple's mother-in-law was laid low with a fever, but with one touch Jesus healed the fever, and the woman was able to get up at once and serve a meal for the household.^{See Mark 1:29–31 .}

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