Thinking about and praying tonight for three men struggling for life – a friend from high school battling cancer, a friend from Indian River battling a debilitating neurological disease that has spread to his brain, and the new pastor of a local church who has undergone surgery to try to repair the damage from a fall today, and may not live through the night.
This hymn jumped off the pages at me tonight as I was reading. What a wonderful reminder that God is a healer, and that we can take our infirmities and lay them at His feet. Please pray with me that He would touch these three lives with His healing hand.
Heal us Emmanuel, here we are,
Waiting to feel thy touch:
Deep-wounded souls to Thee repair,
And, Savior, we are such.
Our faith is feeble, we confess,
We faintly trust Thy word;
But wilt Thou pity us the less?
Be that far from Thee, Lord!
Remember him who once applied
With trembling for relief;
“Lord, I believe,” with tears he cried,
“Oh, help my unbelief!”
She, too, who touch’d Thee in the press,
And healing virtue stole,
Was answer’d, “Daughter, go in peace,
Thy faith hath made thee whole.”
Conceal’d amid the gathering throng,
She would have shunn’d Thy view,
And if her faith was firm and strong,
Had strong misgivings too.
Like her, with hopes and fears, we come
To touch Thee if we may;
Oh! send us not despairing home,
Send none unheal’d away.
William Cowper, 1779
