IS
NOT CHRIST THE SAME?
By Joseph
Allinger
They
are waiting all around us, all the deaf, the blind, the lame; Asking
us to come and help them, saying, “Is not Christ the same?”
He who
healed blind Bartimaeus, sent him happy on his way; Healed
the lame man at Bethesda, Is He not the same today?
Have the years His power diminished, Has His
light with time grown dim? Has
the healing of our bodies now become too hard for Him?
No, our Lord is always changeless, His is
still “All power” today; He
whose Word our bodies fashioned can the quickening word still say.
Oh!
how long has Satan bound them, kept them in his terrible grip; While
we who are Christ’s disciples, serve Him only with our lip.
When they call us to deliver, all too often
they are told; Miracles
do not now happen as they did in days of old.
They
are told “Just trust the doctors, Take their pills and tonics too; Let
them cut away your organs, they’re the only help for you!”
He who is the Great Physician pleads with us
His power to prove; There
is not a sin or sickness faith in Him will not remove.
He has
said, “These signs will follow all who on My Name believe; New
tongues spoken, demons cast out and the sick, their health receive.”
O’ dear Jesus, Thou who pitied suffering
sinners long ago; Look
upon us as we suffer, help us all Thy power know.
Help us stand firm on Thy promise, Give us
faith Thy Word to claim; Then
the sick will all recover, all made whole in Jesus’ Name.
Give
us power by Thy Spirit over all the force of sin; Help
us rescue those who perish and their souls to Jesus win.
When
they see the sick and dying freed and made completely whole; Sins
they will confess and ask Thee for the healing of their soul.
Then
when life’s short day is over, battles fought and victories won; And we
stand before our Maker, may we hear Thy blest, “Well Done”.
