Your name is Healing.

 Your Name Is Healing

A Reflection on Exodus 15:26, Psalm 103:3, and Jeremiah 30:17

Your name is healing—not a formula or a word to speak,

But the presence of the Great Physician, the refuge for the weak.

When I whisper “Jesus,” every sickness bows its knee,

For Your name carries the power that was nailed to Calvary’s tree.

“I am the Lord, who heals you.” (Exodus 15:26)

Your name is healing for the body wracked with pain,

For the fever and the fracture, for the chronic, long campaign.

The same voice that said to Lazarus, “Come forth!” still speaks today,

And at the sound of Your name, the darkness has to give way.

He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. (Psalm 103:3)

Your name is healing for the mind that cannot rest,

For the anxious thoughts, the memories that will not be suppressed.

You bind up the brokenhearted; You set the captive free.

Your name is the balm of Gilead, the remedy for me.

I speak Your name over my body, over every cell and bone.

I speak Your name over my spirit, where the seeds of fear are sown.

I do not trust in my own faith, but in the One who came

To take my infirmities and bear my sickness and my shame.

“Return, O faithless sons,” says the Lord, “for I am your master, and I will take you… and I will heal your faithlessness.” (Jeremiah 3:22, paraphrased)

Your name is healing—not always in an instant, sudden flash,

But sometimes as a river, steady, deep, without a splash.

Yet I will trust Your name, O Lord, as my daily medicine,

For by Your wounds alone my healing enters in.

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)

So I declare it now: Your name, Jesus, is my healing.

My body, mind, and spirit are in Your hands, kneeling.

Not by my might, but by Your grace, I receive Your touch.

Your name is healing, Lord. I need not ask for much.

Amen.