We know everything Jesus said and did while He was on the earth was an expression of the will of God because He said, “I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.… I do always those things that please him” (John 8:28-29). Therefore, if we’d like to know what God desires to do for us today, all we have to do is look at the ministry of Jesus and see what He did for people while He was on the earth. See His attitude toward people and you see God’s attitude. See His heart and you see God’s heart.
Acts 10:38 sums up His ministry by saying, “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”
Jesus went about doing good because God is good. According to this verse, we can know for sure that it seems good to God for all to be healed. Jesus said, “…the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works” (John 14:10). God the Father was present and involved in every healing and deliverance.
God the Father and Jesus His Son can never change. They are good and everything they do is good because they love mankind. Healing comes straight from their heart!
Jesus Cares About People
The religious people in Jesus’ day were no different than many religious people today. They were constantly upset with Jesus because the things He did violated their religious traditions—things like healing people on the wrong day of the week and letting His disciples pick grain to eat on the Sabbath.
Obviously, Jesus did not care as much about religious traditions as He did about people, because that’s the way God is. When He saw people were physically hungry, He didn’t just turn His back and say, “Well, they’ll be OK. They ought to be fasting more anyway.” No, “Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way” (Matthew 15:32). Then He worked a miracle to feed them. It was the Father’s will.
In the same way, when people were spiritually hungry, He fed them with the Word. He sat down among them and taught them scriptural principles through stories, unfolding the mysteries of heaven to them. When people were sick and came to Him, Jesus healed them.
One of my favorite accounts of Jesus’ heart to heal is that of blind Bartimaeus in Mark 10, starting at verse 46. Bartimaeus heard Jesus was coming, and he cried out to Him, “Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.” The disciples tried to shut him up, but he cried out even more—he wanted to be healed!
When he cried out, the Scripture says Jesus then stopped and stood still. Faith always gets Jesus’ attention. When the disciples called the blind man to Jesus, Bartimaeus jumped up from the place where he sat, threw off his garment and came running. Listen to the heart of Jesus, hear His kindness and goodness as He responds in verses 51-52: “Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.”
That was Jesus’ heart.
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