Wednesday, February 24
Jesus Is My Great Physician
By Kris Headington
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed..." Luke 4:18
My co-teacher and I taught junior and senior high students who had been expelled from inner city schools but were required to attend classes. I prayed daily, sometimes hourly, for my challenging students, who came from dysfunctional, broken, and battered families.
On one occasion I was hard-pressed to come up with a creative writing lesson idea to inspire my class. As I prayed about it, I got a picture of hands and how they are used.
The next day I told a story of my grandmother and how I loved her hands that held me, baked bread, played croquet, and set a Thanksgiving table. I told my students to look at their hands—hands that could hold a gun or love a child, hands that could harm, or hands that could teach. Then I asked them to close their eyes and think about what they wanted to do with their hands. They wrote their hopes and dreams, their fears and sorrows. Some of them opened up for the first time.
Those papers stayed on the wall the rest of the school year as a testimony of their ability. We shared them again at “graduation” in May.
Christ worked in them and works in us, healing our broken hearts. The Great Physician always knows how to touch His children.
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Give us the courage, Lord, to come to You in our brokenness,
and the faith to know You long to heal us.
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