Christ shows more love to His patients than any other physician ever has before or since. He took that long journey from heaven to earth, coming without His patients sending for Him: “I am sought of them that asked not for Me; I am found of them that sought Me not” (Isaiah 65:11I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. (Isaiah 65:1)).
Christ Himself drank that bitter cup of death which we should have drunk: “Christ died for our sins” (1 Corinthians 15:3).
He takes no fee! He asks us to bring nothing to Him: “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:88For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (Ephesians 2:8)).
He not only cures them, but crowns them. Christ not only raises the sin-sick person from the bed, but up to the throne. He gives not only health, but heaven.
If you have neglected this Physician all this time, now bring your sick soul to Christ to be cured. He laments that though men are sick unto death, yet they will not come or send to the Physician: “Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life” (John 5:4040And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. (John 5:40)).
Christ came into the world as into a hospital of sick and bedridden souls. In free grace He healed all who came to Him. What man could ever plead, “Lord Jesus, heal me because I am worthy”? God does not find us worthy, but makes us worthy.
If you do not come to Christ to be saved till you are worthy, you will never come: “They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick” (Luke 5:3131And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. (Luke 5:31)).
Consider what a little time we have to stay here. Solomon speaks of “a time to be born, and a time to die,” but mentions no time to live, as though that were so short it were not worth mentioning.
Should death surprise you suddenly, there is no cure to be wrought in the grave. Now is the time of healing; now is the day of grace. “Behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2).