MEDICAL VALUE

Many are crying today – “We wish we were in Europe; “We wish we were in America”; “Oh, if only we were very rich!” Why? Because they face health challenges and consider the Western world to be places where medical expertise is readily available. But according to Jeremiah 8: 19-20, such people are only provoking God to anger by being envious of those who are in a “far country”:

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah 8:19-22

There is nothing in a far country that is not available in Zion.

God is asking, “Why are you wishing you were somewhere else? Why are you running after native doctors and crying after specialists? Is not the Lord in Zion, is your king not at hand?

There is nothing in a far country comparable with what Zion has to offer. There is a balm in Gilead but the people are still battered, buffeted, oppressed and shattered because the Balm has been ignored and the Physician has been disregarded....READ MORE