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Jehovah Rapha – Lord Who Heals

This is found in Exodus chapter 15…(Here is a brief summary) When the Lord God had delivered the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt, Miriam the sister of Aaron, and Moses, took a timbrel in her hand; and led the women out dancing in celebration, and singing, “Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.” 

                   However, after leaving the Red sea, and going three days in the wilderness, they found no water to drink. They came to the waters of “Marah”, but the waters of Marah were bitter. That is why they called the place “Marah” which in Hebrew meant “bitter”. 

                   So what did the people do, well of course they began to murmur against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink now?” 

— In response to this real crisis, Moses turned to the LORD, and cried out to Him for a solution to their desperate need. And the LORD told Moses to take a tree and cast it into the waters, and the waters were made good for the people to drink.

We read in Exodus 15:25-26… “…there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee. 

 

— A New Testament correlation of ‘God as our power of healing’, is found in 1st Peter 2:24 (ESV) He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

— That power of healing still demands that with all our heart, we follow God’s Word in truth and in our doing.

— Isn’t it a beautiful and powerful thing, that in the Old Testament name for God, “Jehovah Rapha”, we find a loving Father God who sent His Son to take on a body of flesh, to suffer and die to pay for our sins, so that we may be healed. Making even us, whole in body and spirit.

May God help and correct us, so that we may honor and claim this promise in His Name. (KRK)