Seeking a Healer

It has been said by many - myself included - that Jesus always healed everyone He came in contact with. Or, perhaps a better way to put it might be that everyone who sought healing from Jesus received it. The subject is contentious. Seek and ye shall find, yes?

There were definitely times when the multitude followed Jesus into the wilderness. After He taught them, He healed their sicknesses and cast out demons when necessary. Remember the well at Bethesda?

Joh 5:2-9
(2) And at Jerusalem is a pool at the Sheep Gate which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.
(3) In these was a great multitude of the infirm lying, blind ones, lame ones, withered ones, awaiting the stirring of the water.
(4) For an angel at a certain time descended in the pool and agitated the water. Then the one first entering after the agitation of the water became well, whatever disease he was held by.
(5) But a certain man was there, being in infirmity thirty eight years.
(6) Seeing him lying, and knowing that he had already spent much time, Jesus said to him, Do you desire to become well?
(7) The infirm one answered Him, Lord, I do not have a man, that when the water is agitated he may throw me into the pool; but while I am coming, another goes down before me.
(8) Jesus said to him, Rise up, Take up your cot and walk!
(9) And instantly the man became well, and took up his cot and walked. And it was a sabbath that day.

First of all, you might notice that some translations do not include that little blurb about the angel stirring the water. Most all translations, however, include the man's statement about 'another man goes down before me'. Well... who cares if there's no angel stirring the water? Who cares who wins the race? That's a soapbox subject for me... the devil has won some battles with our editors.

Jesus didn't heal everyone. He picked a man out that had been seeking healing for 38 years. Why him? Why not 'everyone' at the pool?

We've missed the point. Remember the centurion who told Jesus to just 'say the word' and his child would be healed? With that kind of authority, Jesus could have spoken that same word over Jerusalem - or the world - and ALL sickness would have been destroyed.

Jesus came to heal the sick, true, but His prime purpose was the heal the spiritually sick. Humanity tends to live in the flesh. Once we find someone or some thing that satisfies the flesh, we gravitate toward it like wolves to meat. Jesus had to be careful not to reveal too much to a shallow-minded people... namely... us. God wishes us to live by FAITH, not by sight. And again, to remove all our need has historically driven us away from God, not to Him. He revealed just enough to us to let the seekers know - He is there for us in the physical and the spiritual.