2 Samuel 15:23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
David passed that gloomy brook when fleeing with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God’s own heart was not exempt from trouble, nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord’s anointed, and the Lord’s afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape?
At sorrow’s gates, the noblest of our race have waited with ashes on their heads, why then should we complain, as though some strange thing had happened unto us? The King of kings himself was not favored with a more cheerful or royal road. He passed over the filthy ditch of Kidron, through which the filth of Jerusalem flowed. God had one Son without sin but not a single child without the rod! It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points like as we are.
What is our Kidron this morning? Is it a faithless friend, a sad bereavement, a slanderous reproach, a dark foreboding? The King has passed over all these. Is it bodily pain, poverty, persecution, or contempt? Over each of these Kidrons the King has gone before us. “In all our afflictions, He was afflicted.” The idea of freedom from trials must be banished at once and forever, for He who is the Head of all saints, knows by experience the grief which we think so peculiar to ourselves. All the citizens of Zion must be part of the Honorable Company of Mourners, of which the Prince Immanuel is Head and Captain.
Notwithstanding the abasement of David, he yet returned in triumph to his city, and David’s Lord arose victorious from the grave; let us then be of good courage, for we also shall win the day. We shall yet with joy draw water out of the wells of salvation, though now for a season we have to pass by the noxious streams of sin and sorrow. Courage, soldiers of the Cross, the King himself triumphed after going over Kidron and so shall you
Psalm 103:3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
A) Humbling As Is The Statement yet The Fact Is Certain
B) That We Are All More Or Less Suffering Under The Disease Of Sin
What a comfort to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us! Let us think of Him for a while tonight.
His cures are very speedy there is life in a look at Him. His cures are radical He strikes at the center of the disease. And hence, His cures are sure and certain. He never fails, and the disease never returns. There is no relapse where Christ heals there is no fear that His patients should be merely patched up for a season. He makes new men of them a new heart also does He give them, and a right spirit does He put with them.
He is well skilled in all diseases. Physicians generally have some specialty. Although they may know a little about almost all our pains and ills, there is usually one disease which they have studied above all others; but Jesus Christ is thoroughly acquainted with the whole of human nature. He is as much at home with one sinner as with another, and never yet did He meet with an unusual case which was difficult to Him. He has had extraordinary complications of strange diseases to deal with but He has known exactly with one glance of His eye how to treat the patient.
He is the only universal doctor; and the medicine He gives is the only true universal remedy, healing in every instance. Whatever our spiritual malady may be we should apply at once to this Divine Physician. There is no brokenness of heart which Jesus cannot bind up His blood cleanses from all sin We have but to think of the myriads who have been delivered from all sorts of diseases through the power and virtue of His touch, and we shall joyfully put ourselves in His hands. We trust Him and sin dies; we love Him and grace lives; we wait for Him and grace is strengthened; we see Him as he is and grace is perfected forever!
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