the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Matthew 9:18-38
The Gospels do not relate to us by any means all the miracles performed by the Lord Jesus (see John 21:25). God has only included in His Word those which have some connection with the teaching He wants to give us. Thus the raising from the dead of the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue has, among other things, a prophetic application. The Lord is seen as being on the way to restore life to His people Israel. During this time (the present time), He is available to all those who come to Him in faith, as does the woman in v. 20.
There was sufficient virtue (power, JND trans.) in Jesus to heal "every sickness and every disease" (v. 35). And there was sufficient love in His heart to bear up all His people, as the true Shepherd of Israel (v. 36). Alas! if He met faith here and there, and outstandingly with these two blind men (vv. 28, 29), He was also up against the most terrible unbelief (v. 34).
We, who go through the same world and meet others in the same need (but often with hearts so sadly unaware of it; James 2:15-16), should ask the Lord to give us a wider and clearer vision of His great harvest-field (John 4:35). Let us pray that He will thrust out new labourers into His harvest.
