“I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead?” (Jeremiah 8:21-22) When nothing else will cure us, when there is no other help, then the Balm in Gilead is the only thing that can. In the natural, the Balm in Gilead “is related to the balsam poplar (Commiphora opobalsamum) and is considered a myrrh-like resin/chemical compound found in the Arabian Peninsula, specifically in ancient Palestine east of the Jordan River; it was used for medicine.” Jesus is our Balm in Gilead. Whatever it is that we face and endure in this moment, nothing and no one else can deliver us. “Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice to offer the only healing balm to save our lives.” Any other source of help is sinking sand. “Seek you a balm for your wounds—let me proclaim it to you—you are not ignorant of it, I trust, but let me apply that in which you already place your confidence. The God of heaven knows your sorrows, repair yourself at His throne, and tell your simple tale of woe. Then cast your burden on Him. He will bear it—open your heart before Him, He will heal it. Think not that you are beyond hope. You would be if there were no God of love and pity, but while JEHOVAH lives, the mourner need not despair…We need not ask, ‘Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there!’ There is a balm, there is a physician who can heal all these natural wounds, who can give joy to the troubled countenance, take the furrow from the brow, wipe the tear from the eye, remove the agitation from the bosom, and calm the heart now swelling with grief, for He “healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.” Charles Spurgeon Do not despair, there is a Balm in Gilead! GiGi❤️
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