Christ Healing a bleeding woman, as depicted in the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter.
"Heal me because I do not deserve it."
He does not say, "Heal me because I am a good man," here.
Nor does he suggest any qualities of his character to make him deserve the blessing of healing. He specifically avoids that characterization. Rather, he pleads his own sin as the reason he requests healing.
It gives me hope.
On that basis, I certainly qualify!
" The LORD sustains him on his sickbed;in his illness you restore him to full health.""As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me;heal me, for I have sinned against you!”"
- Psalm 41:3-4 (ESV)
In the long history of God dealing with humans, healing has come, by grace, to a variety of tired, worn out souls, sinners, saints, and ordinary strugglers.
Some sought it and some fought it.
But, so often, in spite of ourselves, it has come.
