My sister Nancy just finished a year of treatments for Hepatitis C which she acquired some 40 years ago through a blood transfusion. It reached a level in late 2011 where it had to be treated. The treatment was nasty. Month after month the drugs produced side effects that would cause the strongest of us to cry “uncle”. Nausea was accompanied with flu like systems, body ache and fatigue, mouth sores that screamed every time something was eaten. Even what was gingerly mouthed tasted metallic and bad. My sister has lived in the “no fun” zone for a year now, but on Jan 20th she took her last pill. The dirty work has been done. Now comes the recovery time and the longed for return to a healthy life.
Our earthly maladies require that we are the ones that have to take the cure. But for the one malady that is most deadly, God took the cure for us.
We had the sin disease. Sin is a severe malady, destroying our lives, eating up our future. Yet God in His mercy doesn’t make us go through the treatment program. He went through it for us. He designed the cure. He took our sins upon Himself, and endured the cure on the cross for us. The side effects were deadly. It cost Him His life. But the treatment was so effective God raised Him from the dead so we could have a whole new healthy and eternal life.
Our sin is taken care of, a malady of consequence far more deadly than Hepatitis C. I can only thank and praise God for His mercy and grace. “For by grace you have been saved through faith. It is not of yourself. It is the gift of God.” Eph 2:8
What a great cure.
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