142. Heal and Lead
Isaiah 57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him, and to his mourners.
The Lord promises healing and leading and comforts to His Servant; He also promise to do the same things for His mourners, that is, to those who believe in Him and follow Him. Because of Christ healing comes from the Lord. Christ is the Healer. He heals the soul and the work of Christ puts us together again whole, healthy and strong. We were broken, sick and weakened with sin. Sin has destroyed the soul and brought us brokenness, sickness and weakness. Jesus brings forgiveness, wholeness, restoration and healing. This promise is ours and we may claim it by faith.
The Lord leads us in the way we should go. He takes us from the errant path we were on leading to condemnation and death and puts us on the right path and there He leads us on to life and salvation and promises that the end of the path will be eternal life, health and wholeness. When we are left to ourselves we would mess up and destroy our own life. We can’t see the way, the way out, or the way forward, but He promises to lead us on the way everlasting, the way of life, peace and joy. Jesus is the Way. His leading and guiding will be always for our good and for positive benefit, if we can only give it all to Him and trust Him to lead.
He restores the soul by giving all the comforts we ever need. He does not always promise “creature comforts” which can be temporary, fleeting, and will not last. The spiritual comforts God gives are things like peace and joy in the heart, which no one can touch or take away. Eternal joys and abiding peace are deeply comfortable; the comforts of the soul are deep and abiding and more solid that any worldly comforts that the world gives. God restores comforts, meaning that God’s original purpose, which we lost in sin, has been restored in Christ. “He restoreth my soul.”